The main use case for local emulators is unit testing. Maybe even some integration testing, especially for stuff like VPC setup that often can't be done without global side effects.

Security for dev accounts is not a big deal, just give each developer an individual account and set up billing alerts.

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wiether 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Security for dev accounts is not a big deal, just give each developer an individual account and set up billing alerts.

If your only focus is spending, yes.

Otherwise, a "not a big deal" dev account can quickly become the door to your whole org for hackers

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cyberax 2 days ago | parent [-]

It really depends on the way you set it up and use it. Raw EC2 instances are obviously the most dangerous items.

RDS databases, DynamoDB, and S3? Much less so.

	▲	wiether 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> you set it up and use it That's my point: I'm not the one setting it up and using it, it's the devs using it And I'm not expecting them to know how to navigate a cloud provider securely. So it's either setting the dev account with all the required guardrails in place, or using "local cloud" on their computer