Amazon Fault Injection Simulator

aid: amazon-fault-injection-simulator
name: Amazon Fault Injection Simulator
description: >-
  AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is a fully managed service for running
  fault injection experiments on AWS. It allows you to improve an application's
  performance, observability, and resiliency by identifying and fixing weaknesses
  through controlled chaos engineering experiments.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- AWS
- Chaos Engineering
- DevOps
- Fault Injection
- Resilience Testing
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-fault-injection-simulator/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: amazon-fault-injection-simulator:aws-fis-api
  name: AWS Fault Injection Simulator API
  description: >-
    The AWS Fault Injection Simulator API provides programmatic access to
    create and manage experiment templates, experiments, and actions for
    conducting chaos engineering experiments on AWS workloads.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/
  baseURL: https://fis.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Chaos Engineering
  - Fault Injection
  - Resilience Testing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-fis-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-fis-experiment-template-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-fis-experiment-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-fis-action-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-fis-safety-lever-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/amazon-fis-experiment-template-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/amazon-fis-experiment-structure.json
  - type: Example
    url: examples/amazon-fis-experiment-template-example.json
  - type: Example
    url: examples/amazon-fis-experiment-example.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
common:
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/tag/aws-fault-injection-simulator/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/fis/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-fis
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-fis-spectral-rules.yml
- type: NaftikoCapability
  url: capabilities/shared/fis.yaml
- type: NaftikoCapability
  url: capabilities/amazon-fis-chaos-engineering.yaml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-fis-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSON-LD
  url: json-ld/amazon-fis-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Managed Fault Injection
    description: Fully managed service requiring no agent installation with pre-built fault injection actions for EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS, and more.
  - name: Pre-built Scenarios
    description: Ready-to-use resilience scenarios for AZ failures, power interruptions, network disruptions, and cross-region connectivity issues.
  - name: Safety Controls
    description: CloudWatch alarm-based stop conditions and safety levers prevent unintended impact during live testing.
  - name: Fine-grained Targeting
    description: Tag-based resource targeting scopes experiments to specific environments, applications, or resource subsets.
  - name: Multi-account Support
    description: Run experiments across multiple AWS accounts using target account configurations.
  - name: CI/CD Integration
    description: API and CLI access enables automated resilience testing in deployment pipelines.
  - name: Real-time Visibility
    description: Console and API provide real-time status of executing actions, affected resources, and triggered stop conditions.
  - name: IAM Security
    description: Fine-grained IAM controls restrict which users can create, run, or view experiments and affected resources.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Application Resilience Testing
    description: Validate application behavior under resource failures before they occur in production.
  - name: Chaos Engineering
    description: Run structured fault injection experiments following chaos engineering principles.
  - name: Observability Validation
    description: Verify that monitoring and alerting systems detect and respond to failures correctly.
  - name: Game Days
    description: Conduct planned game day exercises simulating failure scenarios for team readiness.
  - name: Automated Pipeline Testing
    description: Integrate resilience testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.
  - name: Multi-region Failover Testing
    description: Test cross-region failover mechanisms and recovery time objectives.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Amazon CloudWatch
    description: Stop conditions use CloudWatch alarms to automatically halt experiments.
  - name: AWS IAM
    description: Task execution roles define which AWS resources experiments can affect.
  - name: Amazon EC2
    description: Stop instances, terminate instances, and inject CPU/memory stress on EC2.
  - name: Amazon ECS
    description: Stop ECS tasks and inject faults into containerized workloads.
  - name: Amazon EKS
    description: Terminate Kubernetes nodes and pods running on EKS.
  - name: Amazon RDS
    description: Trigger RDS failovers, reboot instances, and pause cluster I/O.
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Inject latency and errors into Lambda function invocations.
  - name: Amazon DynamoDB
    description: Pause DynamoDB replication between replicas.
- type: Integrations
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
integrations:
  - name: Sign in
  - name: Agent Mode
  - name: 'Why AWS Marketplace?'
  - name: Get started in AWS Marketplace
  - name: Industry
  - name: Resources
  - name: Become a Channel Partner
  - name: Sell in AWS Marketplace
  - name: Manage Your Account
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]