[eikenberry]

You can replicate some of the live-like environment using SAM[1] and SAM-local[2]. Combined with services like ngrok[3] you can even test remote hooks and such.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model [2] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli [3] https://ngrok.com/ or http://serveo.net/