{"slug": "floci-local-cloud-emulators", "title": "Floci – Local Cloud Emulators", "summary": "Floci has launched a suite of local cloud emulators for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, offering a credential-free, MIT-licensed alternative to LocalStack with 24 ms cold start and 13 MiB idle memory. The emulators support 75 AWS services, 25 GCP services, and 8 OCI services, and are designed to let AI coding agents test cloud code locally without real cloud accounts or secrets.", "body_md": "# Any cloud.\n\nLocally.\n\nRun AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster.\n\nRun AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: the fast, credential-free loop your team and its AI agents need to ship faster.\n\nEach emulator is a standalone MIT-licensed binary. No auth tokens, no feature gates, no cloud account needed.\n\nDrop-in replacement for LocalStack. Same port 4566, 75 services, native binary. Switch with zero code changes.\n\nCovers Blob, Queue, Table, Functions, App Config, Key Vault, Event Hubs and Service Bus. Native speed, MIT license, no Azure account needed.\n\nCovers GCS, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GKE and more. All 25 services on one port, native binary. MIT license, no GCP account needed.\n\nCovers Object Storage, Identity, Queue, Streaming, KMS, Vault and Functions. All 8 services on one port. MIT license, no Oracle Cloud account needed.\n\nCoding agents write cloud code faster than ever, but they can't safely run it against a real account. Point them at Floci instead: a local cloud to build, run, and verify against. Instant, free, and credential-free.\n\nAgents connect with throwaway keys. No real cloud secrets in the agent's context or sandbox. Nothing to exfiltrate, nothing to bill.\n\n24 ms cold start, 13 MiB idle. Agents spin up, test, and tear down inside the edit loop instead of waiting on round-trips to a remote account.\n\nLambda, RDS, Redis, and Kafka run for real, so code an agent verifies locally behaves the same in production. No mock-shaped false positives.\n\nLet agents iterate aggressively. Worst case, they reset a local container, not your staging environment or your cloud bill.\n\n```\n # Point any agent's tooling at Floci. No keys, no cloud account export AWS_ENDPOINT_URL=http://localhost:4566 pytest tests/ # runs against real-shaped S3, DynamoDB, Lambda…\n```\n\nWorks with every SDK, CLI, Terraform/OpenTofu module, and test runner your agents already use, with no special integration.\n\nManage and explore every Floci emulator from a unified CLI or visual dashboard.\n\nA unified command-line interface to start, stop, and inspect all Floci emulators. One install covers AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI from a single tool.\n\n```\n # Install (macOS / Linux) curl -fsSL https://floci.io/install.sh | sh # Start the AWS emulator floci start # Check your environment floci doctor\n```\n\nA visual dashboard for all Floci cloud emulators. Browse resources, inspect data, and manage services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI from one place.\n\nNo gatekeeping. No pricing tiers. No surprises. A local cloud that starts in milliseconds and works everywhere.\n\nFork it, embed it, extend it. No \"community edition\" sunset, no enterprise feature flags. Every service is available to every developer, always.\n\nPull the Docker image and go. No sign-ups, no API keys, no telemetry. LocalStack started requiring an auth token in March 2026. Floci never will.\n\nCompiled with GraalVM Mandrel. Starts in 24ms, idles at 13 MiB, fast enough for inner-loop iteration. Your CI, your laptop, and your AI agents will all thank you.\n\nLambda runs in real Docker containers. RDS uses real PostgreSQL/MySQL. ElastiCache runs real Redis. 100% protocol fidelity, no surprises in production.\n\nFrom the inner loop to CI to the classroom — anywhere a real cloud account is too slow, too risky, or too expensive.\n\nSpin up the full stack inside every pipeline job. 24 ms startup adds nothing to the build, each job gets an isolated cloud, and teardown is free.\n\nBuild against S3, Pub/Sub, or Service Bus on your laptop — offline if you want. No shared dev account to trip over, no credentials to rotate.\n\nApply Terraform, OpenTofu, or CloudFormation against localhost first. Catch typos, drift, and bad refactors before they ever touch a real account.\n\nTeach cloud services with zero billing risk. Every student runs the whole stack on their own machine — no accounts to provision, nothing to clean up.\n\nNo account, no token. 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