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Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

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Lucasoato · 1790520422 · focus · HN ↗
I always welcome warmly projects like these, the only problem is that unless there’s a strong community behind, founders tend to build companies around them, raise capital, then put useful functionalities behind paywalls (see localstack).
When I see that, it always reminds me of Steve Jobs’s quote: ”It’s not a product, it’s a feature”.
Aren’t cloud companies like AWS, Azure, GCP the first to be interested in providing their users a meaningful way to do test integrations of their products? Shouldn’t they provide them in the first place?
1. igetspam · 1790525726 · focus · HN ↗
  You’d think that but it doesn’t seem to be the case. I do a lot of offline development and the only way it used to be possible was localstack but that’s AWS only. The open source community is the only interested party, it seems. Thankfully, there’s a lot of contribution happening in this space. Because I have need, I make a lot of my own contributions. I’m doing full stack cloud development against GCP without ever leaving my device.

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