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: '2026-05-19' 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: PostmanWorkspace url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-fault-injection-simulator/overview - type: ArazzoWorkflows url: arazzo/ workflows: - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-discover-action-detail-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Discover Action Detail summary: List the available FIS actions and fetch the full detail of the first action returned. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-discover-target-resource-type-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Discover Target Resource Type summary: List the supported target resource types and fetch the full detail of the first one returned. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-find-and-stop-running-experiment-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Find and Stop Running Experiment summary: List experiments for a template, and if the first one is still active, stop it and confirm the stop. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-list-then-get-template-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS List Then Get Experiment Template summary: List experiment templates and fetch the full definition of the first one returned. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-run-experiment-to-completion-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Run Experiment to Completion summary: >- Create an experiment template, start an experiment from it, and poll until the experiment reaches a terminal state. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-start-then-stop-experiment-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Start Then Stop Experiment summary: >- Start an experiment from an existing template, confirm it is running, stop it, and poll until it is fully stopped. - url: arazzo/amazon-fault-injection-simulator-update-template-then-run-workflow.yml name: AWS FIS Update Template Then Run summary: >- Fetch an existing experiment template, update its description, and start an experiment from the revised template. - 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: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/amazon-fis-vocabulary.yaml - type: JSONLD 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: kin@apievangelist.com