{
  "id": 9967079,
  "title": "Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/floci-locally-emulating-any-cloud-service",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-26T08:31:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News",
    "slug": "hacker-news",
    "url": "https://floci.io/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Floci allows for the local emulation of cloud services from AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud. The emulator is a standalone MIT-licensed binary with no need for authentication tokens or cloud accounts. It operates on a single port and replaces LocalStack, supporting 119 services such as Blob, Queue, Table, Functions, App Config, Key Vault, Event Hubs, and Service Bus. Floci covers cloud services like Google Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and GKE, as well as Microsoft Azure Blob, Queue, Table, Functions, App Config, Key Vault, Event Hubs, and Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Identity, Queue, Streaming, KMS, Vault, and Functions. With Floci, coding agents can write cloud code faster and test it against a local cloud environment, eliminating the need for a real cloud account. The emulator works seamlessly with existing SDKs, CLIs, Terraform/OpenTofu modules, and test runners, providing instant, free access without any surprises. Floci is suitable for various stages of development, from inner loop testing to CI pipelines and educational purposes, wherever a real cloud account is too slow, risky, or costly.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}