Development with a Dot

Introduction When using AWS  for development, sometimes it is useful to have some sort of emulator, so that we don't incur in costs while doing development and debugging. For that, we have local cloud emulators, and LocalStack used to be the standard one not too long ago; the problem is, its licence changed and it is now generally not free. The good news is that there are alternatives that are free, such as MiniStack (GitHub:  MiniStack ), a free and open-source AWS cloud emulator that can emulate more than 55 AWS services and that is very similar to LocalStack. On this post I'll be talking about how to set it up so that we can point to it and use it as if it were the real thing with .NET. We will be using Docker Compose to spin up the local environment. Docker Compose We want to use the latest MiniStack image, which is made available from https://hub.docker.com/r/ministackorg/ministack . Our docker-compose.yml file will look like this: services: ministack: image: m...