AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Improve application resilience with controlled chaos engineering experiments
Overview
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS that makes it easier to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Chaos engineering is the practice of stressing an application in testing or production environments by creating disruptive events, such as server outages or API throttling, observing how the system responds, and implementing improvements.
✨ Key Features
- Run controlled fault injection experiments
- Pre-built and custom fault action types
- Target specific AWS resources
- Safety controls with Amazon CloudWatch alarms
- Experiment templates for repeatable tests
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Fully managed service
- Safe, controlled experiments with built-in guardrails
- Native integration with AWS resources and IAM
Unique Value: Makes it easy and safe to practice chaos engineering on AWS, helping teams build more resilient applications by uncovering hidden weaknesses before they cause production outages.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Simulating an EC2 instance failure to test auto-scaling recovery
- Injecting latency into an RDS database to observe application response
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Load testing or performance benchmarking
🏆 Alternatives
Provides a more secure and integrated way to inject faults into AWS resources compared to third-party tools, which may require more complex setup and permissions management.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Business, Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
🔄 Similar Tools in AWS Well-Architected Tools
AWS Well-Architected Tool
A tool to review your workloads against AWS best practices....
AWS Cost Explorer
An interface to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage....
AWS Budgets
A tool for setting custom cost and usage budgets and receiving alerts....
AWS Trusted Advisor
Provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices....
AWS Config
A service to assess, audit, and evaluate resource configurations....
Amazon CloudWatch
A monitoring and observability service for cloud resources and applications....