alt Hacker NewsI feel like we're in an age where a very small team of devs armed with enterprise LLM subscriptions could absolutely build and maintain an open source, reverse engineered, self-hosted implementation of all of Amazon's most high profile AWS offerings (S3, SQS, Lambdas, IAM, EC2, DynamoDB, etc.). All as a single, cohesive open source project.
Just feed it the API docs and loop.
Replies
ActionHank • today at 1:33 PM
> feel like we're in an age where a very small team of devs armed with enterprise LLM subscriptions
Ok, but who is paying them?
➕ show 1 reply
nater5000 • today at 1:48 PM
Sure... but the point with using AWS is that I don't have to self-host these services lol
Like, most of these services already have proper open-source alternatives you're free to use on your own hardware or even on AWS.
You’re pretty much describing LocalStack [1].
IMO much of the product’s success was derived from the extensive snapshot + behavioural tests they created to validate parity with AWS.
The basic engineering loop was: 1. Write tests against AWS 2. Record all results 3. Run tests from (1) against emulator and diff with results from (2)
Like, theoretically, you could use their preexisting suite of tests to construct a pretty decent emulator, since the engineering + cloud costs of recording behavior has already been frontloaded, and resides within their snapshot files [2].
[1] https://github.com/localstack/localstack
[2] https://github.com/localstack/localstack/tree/main/tests/aws...