Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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> LocalStack's community edition sunset in March 2026 — requiring auth tokens, dropping CI support, and freezing security updates. Floci is the no-strings-attached alternative.

kay_o

is all of this is vibe coded?

mhitza

This project would be comical if it takes off. In Romanian this name means "a small pile of hair", but informally it's only used as a synonym for pubic hair.

cebert

Cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure should offer local emulators for development. This would encourage developers to utilize their services more. I currently work with several AWS serverless stacks that are challenging or even impossible to integration test locally. While Localstack provide a decent solution, it seems like a service that AWS should offer to enhance the developer experience. They’d also be in the best position to keep it current.

operator_nil

This is exactly what I was waiting for. Although I love localstack and am grateful for what they have done, I always thought that an open community-driven solution would be much more suitable and opens a lot of doors for AWS engineers to contribute back. I’m certain that it’s on their best interest to do so (specially as many of their popular products have local versions) It’s a no-brainer to me as AI adoption continues to increase: local-first integration testing is a must and teams that are equipped to do so will be ahead of everyone else

banditelol

Cool, I've tried localstack before and cant wait to give it a try Anyway, do anyone know if there're similar stuff but for gcp? So far https://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator helped me a lot in emulating bigquery behaviour, but I cant find emulator for the whole gcp environment.

SilentM68

If I wanted to follow a tutorial or book but could not afford AWS, could this tool be used as a substitute for AWS functionality?

conception

Is Eucalyptus still a thing?

bamwor

I run several Docker services on EC2 and testing locally before deploying has always been painful. This looks promising for catching config issues before they hit production. Does it support EC2 + RDS together in local mode?