Picking an OSS Alternative After LocalStack Was Archived — A Comparison of MiniStack, Floci, kumo, fakecloud, and moto

LocalStack's OSS repository was archived and the Community Edition image was rolled into an auth-required unified image, leaving many teams who had built their CI/CD and docker-compose flows around it scrambling for a replacement. This post lines up the newcomers (MiniStack, Floci, kumo, fakecloud) and the durable test-side tools (moto, ElasticMQ, S3Mock, DynamoDB Local), compares them on license, service coverage, and migration cost, and maps each candidate to a workload.