[scarface74]

I can’t speak for ElasticTranscoder, but there is nothing stopping you from running your lambda function locally and still connect to all of the AWS services.

Just like people have been calling their controller actions from test harnesses for ages to test their APIs. You can call call your handler the same way.

At the end of the day, AWS is just passing you a JSON message. You can call your lambda function manually with the same JSON payload locally.

[laumars]

This is exactly how we test our lambda code that call AWS media encoders