Yes it's a Kafka-esque soul-deadening trial. Either you: use some OSS tool that emulates AWS infra locally (never exactly, and always missing features), run the

Yes it's a Kafka-esque soul-deadening trial. Either you: use some OSS tool that emulates AWS infra locally (never exactly, and always missing features), run the aforementioned tool in a container because why not (looking at you, GitHub runners), or simply rely on manual integration testing to somewhat emulate the environment (and provision and point to blackbox cloud resources when you have a lot of moving pieces).