Infrastructure & DevOps
AWS Emulator
Last updated 2026-06-30 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Free, open-source AWS emulator for running AWS services locally.
Is AWS Emulator production-ready?
Legit.Show scores AWS Emulator 70 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on AWS Emulator (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 69/100
- Accessibility — 93/100
- Security — 20/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 90/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Exposed secrets detected on the public surface.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 1073 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Developers using Terraform · CDK users · boto3 developers · Pulumi users · AWS CLI users
Pricing
Free
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