AWS on Wednesday rolled out an emulator for AWS called AWS Emulator. That, by itself, is interesting and may raise some questions about the future of LocalStack. But what's maybe most interesting is that the emulator was entirely built by a team of agents and will also be maintained by them going forward.
Since AWS wasn't sure it could actually copyright the work of these agents — and didn't want to assert copyright where none may exist — the emulator is available under the Creative Commons Zero license, which puts the code into the public domain. Tom 'Spot' Callaway, a principal open source software strategist at AWS, told The New Stack that there have obviously been other emulators in the past — and AWS itself has built some, too. "The challenge is that they get out of date very quickly," he explains.
"They don't always reflect reality on the ground, and because of that, they're often not trusted. And we didn't even trust them internally."
