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According to AWS, its new Fault Injection Simulator makes it easy for teams to monitor and inspect blind spots, performance bottlenecks, and other unknown vulnerabilities unidentified by conventional tests.  The tool comes with pre-built experiment templates that enable teams to gradually or simultaneously impair distinct applications’ performance in a production environment. For convenience, the simulator also provides controls and guardrails so teams can automatically roll back or stop the...

Complete with nervous warnings: how much chaos is too much? Tim Anderson Tue 16 Mar 2021 // 17:15 UTC Share Copy AWS has rolled out its Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), designed to introduce deliberate faults into its cloud services so that users can test the resilience of their applications. Chaos engineering is useful for discovering what actually happens in the event of a failure, observing the principle that administrators cannot know whether something like a failove...

by This year the annual re:invent conference organized by AWS was virtual, free and three weeks long. During multiple keynotes and sessions, AWS announced new features, improvements and cloud services. Below is a review of the main announcements impacting compute, database, storage, networking, machine learning and development. Compute On the very first day of the conference, Amazon announced EC2 Mac instances for macOS, adding after many years a new operating system to EC2. This is mainly targ...

AWS Brings Chaos Engineering to the Cloud at re:Invent 2020 Amazon CTO Werner Vogels talks about challenges resulting from the pandemic and announces new services during the third week of the re:Invent 2020 virtual conference. In a year of great challenges, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels still sees opportunities. In a keynote address on Dec.15 during the third week of Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2020 virtual conference, Vogels ( pictured) announced a series of new innovations and services —...

help_outline CLOUD Go build and operate: AWS shifts focus to removing system complexity during re:Invent’s third week SHARE After two straight weeks and a steady drumbeat of new product and service announcements during re:Invent 2020, Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off the third week of it’s three-week event by sitting back and taking a breath. Today’s keynote presentation by Werner Vogels (pictured), chief technology officer and vice presiden...

AWS Introducing Fault Injection Simulator December 15, 2020 AWS has announced it is introducing the Fault Injection Simulator, a fully managed chaos engineering service, in 2021. Chaos engineering involves testing a system in disruptive and random ways, in an effort to mimic the circumstances and conditions experienced in real life. As cloud computing has risen in prominence, and become the backbone allowing companies to remain productive during the pandemic, stress testing systems is more i...

AWS introduces new Chaos Engineering as a Service offering When large companies like Netflix or Amazon want to test the resilience of their systems, they use chaos engineering tools designed to help them simulate worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they even happen. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced the company’s Chaos Engineering as a Service offering called AWS Fault Injection Simulator. The name may lack a certain marketing panache, but Vogels sa...