AWS launches AWS Emulator, a local test environment for coding agents
Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Emulator, a tool that gives coding agents a local, simulated copy of AWS infrastructure to test code against before deployment. The announcement was accompanied by a guest post from Swami Sivasubramanian, an AWS principal architect, reflecting on distributed systems work at Amazon, including his early role in developing Dynamo after discovering that most Amazon database operations were key-value rather than relational.