AWS released AWS Emulator on November 11, 2026, a generally available local emulator built from 438 AWS API models covering more than 200 services. Autonomous AI agents wrote and tested its code, giving developers and coding agents a way to exercise AWS APIs on their own machines without an AWS account. The AWS CLI, AWS SDKs and coding agents connect through a local HTTPS endpoint using the same APIs they would use in the cloud. Environment variables redirect those tools to the user’s machine…