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		rmbyrro on Aug 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained > Why on earth AWS doesn't have their own first party emulators for everything Because they want you to pay for local development, not only production. Google offers an emulator because otherwise no one would and they need to catch up with AWS, which has, what, 4x their market share? AWS offers local emulators for services they need to catch up, like Lambda and DynamoDB.

jamesfinlayson on Aug 5, 2022 [–]

I was excited when you said local Lambda emulator, but SAM just looks like a wrapper around https://github.com/lambci

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