Automating chaos experiments with AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Lambda
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This article discusses a technique for running chaos experiments on AWS Lambda functions using Lambda extensions. The key points are:
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of chaos engineering and the challenges of applying traditional techniques to serverless applications
- Using Lambda extensions to inject faults into the execution environment without modifying function code
- Automating chaos experiments with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks
- A sample implementation demonstrating how to run a serverless chaos experiment
- Security considerations when using Lambda extensions
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