Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces new Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for API errors
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for simulating API errors, enabling customers to test application resilience and error handling capabilities.
- Allows controlled testing of Kinesis Data Streams API errors, including throttling and service unavailable exceptions
- Supports creating simulated errors for GET and PUT operations (500, 503, and 400 error types)
- Enables testing of retry mechanisms and CloudWatch alarms in a controlled environment
- Provides automatic stop mechanisms to prevent unintended application disruption
- Can be integrated into continuous integration pipelines
The feature helps customers validate monitoring systems and recovery processes before encountering real-world failures, ultimately improving application reliability.
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