[satyrnein]

I'd like to see a workflow that meets all the criteria. I was surprised to see the item about deploying directly from your own machine; that seems to contradict the other goals which point to automated pipelines that deploy on merge.

[kqr]

I feel like a lot of people misread that point. It's not about deploying to production (that sounds nuts!) It's about spinning up and deploying to a full dev environment. This is in part to not have to run everything locally, but mainly to exercise deploy automation regularly.

[TheP1000]

This is a very common pattern especially with the cdk. Having a locally deployed stack makes development in the cloud so much easier.