I disagree about the "doesn't add value" part when talking about introducing an abstraction over the AWS sdk: with mocks, it allows one to simulate failures, hu

I disagree about the "doesn't add value" part when talking about introducing an abstraction over the AWS sdk: with mocks, it allows one to simulate failures, hung connections, and reproduce bugs without trying to contort an actual AWS account into the bad configuration that one might encounter in the real world Your assertion about "cheaper" is also only true if one remembers to tear down all those resources when finished testing against them