🚨 THIS FREE TOOL JUST MADE YOUR $200/MONTH AWS DEV BILL COMPLETELY OPTIONAL.
A team open sourced a full AWS emulator that boots 45 cloud services in under a second.
13 MiB of memory. No Docker, no subscription or bill.
It is called Floci. And the developer world just changed quietly.
Here is everything it killed overnight:
↳ $40/month LocalStack Pro
↳ AWS staging accounts burning $200 every month
↳ Docker Desktop eating 4GB of RAM to fake a single S3 bucket
↳ 30 second cold starts before you can test one Lambda function
↳ CI pipelines slower than the actual tests they are running
Now here is what replaced all of that:
One Go binary. No dependencies. No config files. No setup wizard. No Docker daemon. No Python runtime. No Java VM.
Download it. Run it. Done.
Your average Chrome tab uses 200 times more RAM than this entire AWS clone. Let that sink in.
What is actually inside:
↳ S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, IAM, CloudFormation, Step Functions and more
↳ All 45 services running simultaneously in a single executable
↳ Sub-second boot time, faster than your terminal finishes rendering
↳ Full compatibility with existing AWS SDK and CLI, just point to localhost
↳ Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows
No code changes needed. No environment rewiring. Whatever your project already does against real AWS works against Floci on your laptop instantly.
The teams paying cloud bills to test code in development are about to feel very silly.
100% open source. Free forever.
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