An official local emulator sounds nice until AWS has to explain why S3, IAM, or Kinesis behave a little differntly on your laptop, because the minute it's blessed people will treat every mismatch as an AWS bug, not a dev-time compromise.

AWS don't want that support nightmare.

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thinkthatover an hour ago | parent | next [-]

what makes you think AWS would look at any of the bugs filed by people using local emulators

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littlestymaar 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

“A trillion dollar company cannot afford bug triage” is a weird argument tbh.

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		Except that it's true, they can't. How else are they going to race to the bottom of the minimum number of employees and maximum amount of management bonuses?