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Injecting custom faults with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Part 2— AWS Fault Injection Simulator series — TL;DR You can use AWS Lambda and embedded scripts to inject custom faults with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) using the newly launched SSM Automation & FIS integration. GitHub - adhorn/aws-fis-experiment-templates: Collection of AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)… Collection of AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiment templates. These templates let you perform chaos…github.com

Chaos Engineering

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Injecting custom faults with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

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Chaos Engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Part 1 — AWS Fault Injection Simulator series —

Chaos Engineering

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What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator and why you should care.

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Towards continuous resilience

How to anticipate, monitor, respond, and continuously learn from failure. — I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Ricardo Sueiras, Isabel Huerga Ayza, Matt Fitzgerald, Antonio Valle, Aaron Schwam, and Won Huh for their valuable feedback.

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Chaos Engineering — Looking back to look forward

Thoughts on chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator — In this blog post, I want to look back a little bit because, as Rachel Carson said: “To understand the living present and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.” — Rachel Carson For those who don’t know, Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 —…

Chaos Engineering

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Dec 17, 2020

AWS re:Invent 2020 digest — Part 2

Curated list of my favorite AWS updates from re:Invent 2020 — reInvent 2020 is coming to an end. A lot of new launches have happened since I published Part 1 of this series. Because digesting all the different updates takes time and a lot of coffee, I thought I’d help you out a little. Following is a curated list of things…

AWS

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Dec 3, 2020

AWS re:Invent 2020 digest — Part 1

Curated list of my favorite AWS updates from re:Invent 2020 — While reInvent just started, the first keynote from Andy Jassy has had a lot of new launches. I know that digesting all the updates takes time and a lot of coffee, so let me help you. Following is a curated list of things that I found most important; matters related…

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·Nov 11, 2020

Operational Readiness Review Template

Towards Operational Excellence — I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Ricardo Sueiras, Matt Fitzerald, and Boaz Ziniman for their valuable feedback.

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Nov 10, 2020

The Operational Excellence Collection

A list of my operational excellence related blog posts. Series on Operational Excellence It takes three interconnecting elements to operate the technology we build successfully. First, you need to have the right culture. Second, you need great tools. And third, you need complete processes. Part 1 of the series covers the cultural side of…

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The Operational Excellence Collection

A list of my operational excellence related blog posts.

Series on Operational Excellence

It takes three interconnecting elements to operate the technology we build successfully. First, you need to have the right culture. Second, you need great tools. And third, you need complete processes.

Part 1 of the series covers the cultural side of…

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·Aug 18, 2020

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

Originally published at https://aws.amazon.com on August 18, 2020 by Varun Jewalikar and Adrian Hornsby — Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems-such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases-and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures.

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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

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·Jul 7, 2020

Ten lessons from twelve years of AWS

Recording and redacted transcript from my keynote at the AWS Community Day Australia and New Zealand. — First of all, I would like to thank everyone in the AWS Community in Australia and New Zealand and the AWS Heroes who have helped put this event together. In particular, Augustino (aka Gus), Peter, and Nathan , the AWS Heroes, and John our OBS Ninja. …

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