AWS releases a local service emulator built by coding agents
Original title: aws-emulator
The Rust tool needs Docker on macOS or Windows and logged 29,684 commits in its first three weeks.
Amazon Web Services released aws-emulator, a local stand-in for AWS services so tests do not need a paid API key. Simon Willison says a large swarm of agents wrote it, citing 29,684 commits in the first three weeks, and points to a guest post by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian on Werner Vogels' blog. It currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows.
- Willison wants a single downloadable binary usable in other language test suites.
- The project's origin is described in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog.
- Vendors
- Amazon Web Services
- Products
- aws-emulator
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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.
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