floci-io/floci
Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative
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Any Cloud. Locally. Light, fluffy, and always free No account. No auth token. No feature gates. Just docker compose up. Quick Start · Features · Services · SDKs · Testcontainers · Migration · Docs Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator for development, testing, and CI. It gives you AWS-shaped services on your machine without requiring a cloud account, an auth token, or paid feature gates. Point your AWS SDK, CLI, Terraform, CDK, OpenTofu, or test suite at http://localhost:4566 and keep your existing workflows. Already using LocalStack? Floci is a drop-in replacement: swap the image and keep going. See Migrating from LocalStack. Floci is the AWS member of the Floci emulator family, named after floccus, the cloud formation that looks like popcorn. The fastest way to run Floci is with the official CLI No Docker? Each release also ships a standalone floci-aws binary for Linux, macOS and Windows; see…
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- What is Floci?
- Quick Start
- Watch it run
- Web Console
- Running a different console
- Features
- Why Floci?
- Architecture Overview
- Supported Services
- Real Docker Integration
- Overriding default images
- Persistence and Storage Modes
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Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative
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- Owner
- floci-io
- Primary language
- Java
- Stars
- 28,184
- Forks
- 3,161
- Open issues + pull requests
- 191
- License
- MIT
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- Default branch
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- Created
- 2026-02-18T02:28:29.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-03T12:15:22.000Z
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