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Chaos Engineering — Simulate AZ Failures on AWS

5 years ago dzone.com

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by These chaos experiments uncover new information, which can then be used to make changes to code, making our systems more resilient than they were before.

In this article, I will walk you through how you can create chaos experiment of Availability Zone (AZ) failure on AWS.

Since AZ failure is now simulated, SSH will timeout and hence steady-state hypothesis is broken.

Rollback AZ failure — It is important to also rollback the AZ failure.