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is there a way to validate flows before registering them? i’d like to test things locally like storage, etc. that would otherwise cause an error on the registering step

Not really because `flow.run()` does not respect storage or RunConfig. What are you imagining? Some easier way to debug? Cuz you can do something like

```storage = S3(...)
storage.build()```
The registration calls the build but you can do it independently lol

Not sure if its a support pattern per-say, but we have the following
```flow.storage = S3(storage_bucket)
flow.run_config = ECSRun(image=image)
flow.serialize(build=True)```
I’ve seen this catch issues with the flow, before actually registering it

Ah that’s true that should call the build as well