running lambda in local development machine

We built java/kotlin based lambda functions with function urls to make them as a service and invoke it using REST api. We used cdk to infra code. Thought we test the entire logic using unit tests, but multiple times, we need to run the code inside lambda to actually test with the existing environment.

Are there anyway to run the lambda locally and make it to connect to dynamo db from dev environment/aws account ?

I find few options using sam command to run lambda locally. We are using cdk, will the same sam command work ?