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AWS Fault Injection Service
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AWS Fault Injection Service
$0.10usage-based
No upfront costs or minimum fees · charges depend on active action duration and target accounts · action duration rounded to nearest minute
Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On the record
- Access security
- FIS integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management to control who can run experiments and which resources and services can be affected.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Agent exception
- Instance-level CPU and memory utilization faults require the SSM agent.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Audit trail
- AWS states that FIS generates CloudTrail logs for actions it takes on AWS resources during an experiment.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- FIS can be accessed through the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, and HTTPS API, and its APIs can be used in CI/CD pipelines and custom tooling.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Managed service
- FIS is fully managed and its experiments can run without installing agents for many action types.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- FIS supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring experiments and shows experiment progress and action details through its console and APIs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Operational scope
- For a single-account experiment, target resources must be in the experiment's AWS account; multi-account experiments can target resources in other accounts.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- AWS FIS runs fault injection experiments on AWS workloads to help teams improve application performance, observability, and resilience.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Real resource effects
- FIS carries out real actions on real AWS resources, and AWS recommends planning experiments and running them in pre-production before production use.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Report charge
- Experiment reports summarizing actions and application response from a customer-provided CloudWatch Dashboard cost $5 per report.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Rollback
- FIS supports automatically rolling back or stopping an experiment when specified conditions are met.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Safety controls
- Experiments can use tags to select targets and CloudWatch alarms or other tools to stop an experiment when conditions are met.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Scenario library
- The FIS Scenario Library provides AWS-created experiment templates for testing disruptions ranging from partial failures to more severe impacts.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Transport security
- FIS API clients must support TLS 1.2, and AWS recommends TLS 1.3.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
