GoKawiil🍿☁️ Light, fluffy, and always free
Named after floccus — the cloud formation that looks exactly like popcorn.
A free, open-source local AWS emulator. No account. No feature gates. No CI restrictions. Just docker compose up .
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.
Why Floci?
Floci LocalStack Community Auth token required No Yes (since March 2026) CI/CD support Unlimited Requires paid plan Security updates Yes Frozen Startup time ~24 ms ~3.3 s Idle memory ~13 MiB ~143 MiB Docker image size ~90 MB ~1.0 GB License MIT Restricted API Gateway v2 / HTTP API ✅ ❌ Cognito ✅ ❌ ElastiCache (Redis + IAM auth) ✅ ❌ RDS (PostgreSQL + MySQL + IAM auth) ✅ ❌ S3 Object Lock (COMPLIANCE / GOVERNANCE) ✅ ⚠️ Partial DynamoDB Streams ✅ ⚠️ Partial IAM (users, roles, policies, groups) ✅ ⚠️ Partial STS (all 7 operations) ✅ ⚠️ Partial Kinesis (streams, shards, fan-out) ✅ ⚠️ Partial KMS (sign, verify, re-encrypt) ✅ ⚠️ Partial Native binary ✅ ~40 MB ❌
20+ services. 408/408 SDK tests passing. Free forever.
Quick Start
# docker-compose.yml services : floci : image : hectorvent/floci:latest ports : - " 4566:4566 " volumes : - ./data:/app/data
docker compose up
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