Category: AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)

Learn how to use AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Systems Manager Automation to run progressive chaos experiments against Amazon SQS queues. Validate that your retry logic, circuit breakers, and dead-letter queues actually work under failure before a real outage hits production.

Learn how AWS, HashiCorp, and Athenahealth designed and chaos-tested a multi-Region disaster recovery strategy for Terraform Enterprise on AWS. This post walks through three-phase AWS Fault Injection Service experiments across Amazon EC2, Aurora, and Amazon S3, the 12-14 minute recovery times achieved, and the state file dependency pitfall to avoid.

In this post, you’ll learn how to architect and implement a five-layer AI-powered resilience framework that automatically discovers dependencies, generates targeted experiments, and integrates with your existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. First, we’ll explore the key challenges in resilience testing. Then, we’ll walk through the five-layer architecture that solves these challenges. Finally, we’ll show you how to implement this, with phased rollout guidance for pilot, expansion, and organization-wide deployment.

Cash App, a leading peer-to-peer payments and digital wallet service from Block, Inc., has implemented resilience improvements across the entire technology stack. In this post, we discuss how Cash App improved the resilience of its compute platform built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) by implementing a dual-cluster topology to reduce single points of failure. We also discuss how Cash App used AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to conduct an Availability Zone power interruption scenario in non-production environments, preparing the platform team for real-world failures and ongoing

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