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Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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Re: Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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Cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure should offer local emulators for development. This would encourage developers to utilize their services more. I currently work with several AWS serverless stacks that are challenging or even impossible to integration test locally. While Localstack provide a decent solution, it seems like a service that AWS should offer to enhance the developer experience. They’d also be in the…

Azure does this and has amazing tooling for bringing it all together locally (Aspire)

Re: Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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As someone who has worked in projects with hundreds of seemingly trivial dependencies which still manage to produce a steady stream of security notices, "What qualifications do you have to write this software" seems like an entirely reasonable, far too seldom asked question to me.

Sure, but that seems like quite a high gatekeeping bar for a test suite.

What test suite?

Re: Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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what makes you think AWS would look at any of the bugs filed by people using local emulators

Because, in this hypothetical situation, AWS provides the emulators that people are filing bugs on.

Re: Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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We wrote a detailed breakdown of Floci's specs vs LocalStack — the 408/408 SDK test pass rate, 24ms vs 3.3s startup, services LocalStack community edition doesn't cover (API Gateway v2, Cognito, RDS with IAM auth): https://megaoneai.com/spotlight/floci-free-aws-emulator-alte...
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