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 experiment when specific conditions are met.
What’s more, the simulator allows teams to create disruptive experiments across a range of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon RDS. Teams can also run “GameDay scenarios or stress-test their most critical applications on AWS at scale,” said AWS.
Complete with nervous warnings: how much chaos is too much?
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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 failover system will work as expected until there is an actual outage.
It can also be used to test the impact of things like services that are slow to respond, or which encounter bad data, or which run out of memory. The idea is not only to avoid catastrophe but also to measure the outcome and its potential impact on a business.
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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 targeted at processes that only run on Mac OS, like building and testing applications for iOS, MacOS, tvOS and Safari. The first part of Andy Jassy s keynote was focused on announcements related to compute options and serverless technologies. AWS introduced new instance types on different processors and EC2 families, including Intel Xeon M5zn instances, Graviton2-powered C6gn instances, Intel-powered D3/D3en instances, memory-optimized R5b instances and AMD-powered G4ad GPU instances. See InfoQ
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 including a chaos engineering service for the public cloud provider and outlined technology approaches that will be growing trends in the future. He also spoke at length about the challenges of 2020 and the opportunities of digital transformation.
help outline CLOUD Go build and operate: AWS shifts focus to removing system complexity during re:Invent’s third week
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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 president of Amazon.com Inc., was notable less for the new products he announced and more for his observations about the current complexity of the enterprise computing infrastructure and what AWS was doing to address it.