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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by Olreich on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:25PM (#26858604)
While that’s generally true, the inputs and outputs and execution environment that you can count on is well-documented on AWS Lambda. That means that recreation of execution environment for the function in question is pretty reasonable locally (why is this not a thing then Amazon?!?). For the rest of AWS, you can either get credentials in place for access or mock those out somehow, but that’s not officially supported either.

I feel like the service is leaving a bunch of easy work on the table that would let people have a local development process that mirrors the remote development reality.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by scrollaway on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:34AM (#26861548)
It is a thing; unfortunately it's not officially supported but I also find it crazy that so many developers are fine doing dev directly on "the cloud", as if that's a reasonable use of their time.

https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by zerubeus on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:12AM (#26873092)
Lack of understanding, I think every new dev to serverless will have this stage of frustration, then eventually will find a way to do better with creative ideas, I myself never run lambda in the cloud I write a UT for my handler and assume I know the input and the expected output, I mock everything except step functions I use the official jar from AWS.
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