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Amazon Web Services' new AWS emulator, written in Rust, accumulated 29,684 commits in its first three weeks, according to a guest post by Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian on Werner Vogels' blog. The emulator currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows, and Simon Willison wrote that he hopes AWS ships a single downloadable binary usable in standard test suites in other languages and on other platforms.

read1 min views1 publishedNov 11, 2026

It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three weeks of the project. Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian wrote about how it came to be in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog.

It currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows. I'm hoping they fix that in the future - it would be great if you could download a single binary and use that as part of a standard test suite in other languages and on other platforms.

Tags: amazon, amazon-web-services, testing, werner-vogels, ai, rust, docker, generative-ai, llms, agentic-engineering

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