Test and build application resilience using Amazon EBS latency injection
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The article discusses how to test and build application resilience using Amazon EBS latency injection through AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS). The key points include:
- Chaos engineering helps proactively identify potential storage infrastructure issues
- AWS FIS enables controlled testing of Amazon EBS faults by simulating storage slowdowns
- Four key latency scenarios are available for testing:
- Sustained latency
- Intermittent latency
- Increasing latency
- Decreasing latency
- Users can create custom experiments to test specific application latency sensitivities
- CloudWatch and detailed EBS performance statistics can be used to monitor latency impacts
The goal is to help organizations understand how their applications respond to storage performance disruptions and implement preventive measures to maintain high availability.
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