Are there any emulator for AWS Lambda?

Question

I want to run Go service on AWS Lambda by this instruction without actually using AWS Lambda service. Looking for a vagrant or vbox which can emulating Lambda. I know it's a weird request. Is it possible?

Answer 1

There are a few options (from damn simple to more complete)

1. Node Lambda – Command line tool to locally run and remotely deploy your node.js applications to Amazon Lambda.

   • Custom event used to simulate an input similar to what Lambda would get on AWS.
   • Allows testing locally, simulating AWS Lambda environment.
   • Deploy

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2. grunt-aws-lambda – Grunt plugin to assist in developing functions for AWS Lambda.

   • All of the above
   • Function packaging (ZIP)
   • Separation of environments (dev, test, production)
   • Adds stripping and packaging of function before deploying (including only necessary packages).

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3. serverless (formerly JAWS) – Complete application framework to build applications based on different services in AWS (that relies heavily on AWS Lambda).

   • All of the above
   • Includes boilerplate setup
   • Simulates an API gateway to test locally

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Hope this is useful.