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aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three weeks of the project. Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian wrote about how it came to be in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog. It currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows. I'm hoping they fix that in the future - it would be great if you could download a single binary and use that as part of a standard test suite in other languages and on other platforms. Tags: amazon , amazon-web-services , testing , werner-vogels , ai , rust , docker , generative-ai , llms , agentic-engineering

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11th November 2026 - Link Blog

aws-emulator. Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so.

It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three weeks of the project. Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian wrote about how it came to be in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog.

It currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows. I'm hoping they fix that in the future - it would be great if you could download a single binary and use that as part of a standard test suite in other languages and on other platforms.

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