Chaos engineering on AWS — “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” ― W. Edwards Deming Couple years ago, I wrote about Operational Excellence (OE) and discussed the three interconnecting elements to operate the technology we build successfully. First, you need great tools. Second, you need complete processes. …

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

Part 1 — AWS Fault Injection Simulator series —

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.

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 —…

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…

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…

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.