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Agree here.

At my $WORK we run all of our backend on AWS but anything I've touched has to also run locally.

We use serverless framework, and there are plugins for running the lambdas locally as well as for dynamodb, sqs, ses and eventbridge.

I think it's a case of choosing your dependencies carefully though. I would be wary of integrating against an AWS service which does not have an API compatible offline or provided-elsewhere alternative.

A case where we fail at this is Cognito. Even our 'offline'/local stack has to connect to our dev environment for that one.