Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

With the recent changes around Localstack pricing/licensing I've been hunting for alternatives. I decided that it might be a fun experiment to try rolling my own. SQS is a service I use heavily so I chose that as the first service to implement. I have more services planned and in development.

A few things I think are cool:

4MB Docker Image Size

Instant Startup

AWS Sigv4 Authentication

A little admin UI that can be helpful for development/troubleshooting

Most of the SQS API implemented, the rest will soon follow :)

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great_psy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What kind of things would you use this to simulate ?

Is this to make sure services are wired up with permission and communicate properly before you deploy or what is the use case ?

Also, why not have a dev environment where you can test things on the real thing (ideally with smaller size instances to save $)

	▲	giza182 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Intergration testing is one. You can run this in your ci/locally to speed up tests. Or just for local dev. We do this with localstack[1] [1] https://www.localstack.cloud/

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Carrok 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looks cool! Now add (simulated) billing. ;)

	▲	ryanisnan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Easy... $<INSERT_VERY_LARGE_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE>

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leetrout 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Another SQS stand-in is smoothmq

https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq