How to run Lambda code locally

To get here I started google searching “run aws sam on mac” and found this AWS article:

Installing SAM CLI using Pip

I didn’t have pip installed, but I had pip3 installed, so I ran the same command it mentions and saw it install everything correctly.

pip3 install aws-sam-cli

After this I am looking at how to test the Lambdas. I’m using this AWS article:
Testing AWS SAM CLI