Why I'm building a free, open-source AWS emulator

A few days ago, our CI started failing. The culprit: localstack:latest now requires an account and an auth token. Broken builds. I'd seen LocalStack creeping toward proprietary for a while, but this was the moment it actually hit. A colleague noticed it at the same time as me, but I was already working on a fix. I patched the build, but the question stuck: how long can we keep using the old version until we start having real problems? I don't trust mocks I should back up. I care about tests a lo