For local development, the Python backend expects a working AWS setup pointing at us-east1. This should be reflected in the local development instructions to avoid issues with the Python server starting up.
Additionally we should make it so AWS config isn't required to start up at all locally. Whatever can't work without AWS we can have fail gracefully but not block other development
For local development, the Python backend expects a working AWS setup pointing at us-east1. This should be reflected in the local development instructions to avoid issues with the Python server starting up.