{"slug": "aws-emulator", "title": "aws-emulator", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-and-the-engineers-job-when-agents-write-the-code.html) in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog.\n\nIt 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.\n\nTags: [amazon](https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon), [amazon-web-services](https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon-web-services), [testing](https://simonwillison.net/tags/testing), [werner-vogels](https://simonwillison.net/tags/werner-vogels), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [rust](https://simonwillison.net/tags/rust), [docker](https://simonwillison.net/tags/docker), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [agentic-engineering](https://simonwillison.net/tags/agentic-engineering)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-emulator", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/11/aws-emulator/", "published_at": "2026-11-11 21:18:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 21:53:23.506383+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Amazon Web Services", "Swaminathan Sivasubramanian", "Werner Vogels", "Simon Willison", "Rust", "Docker"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-emulator", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-emulator.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-emulator.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aws-emulator.jsonld"}}