vocabulary: 1.0.0
info:
  provider: AWS Fault Injection Simulator
  description: Taxonomy for AWS FIS chaos engineering service covering experiment templates, experiments, actions, safety levers, and target resource types.
  created: '2026-04-19'
  modified: '2026-04-19'
operational:
  apis:
  - name: AWS FIS API
    namespace: fis
    version: '2020-12-01'
    baseUrl: https://fis.{region}.amazonaws.com
    status: active
  resources:
  - name: experiment-templates
    description: Reusable templates defining fault injection scenarios
    actions:
    - create
    - get
    - list
    - update
    - delete
  - name: experiments
    description: Running instances of fault injection experiments
    actions:
    - start
    - get
    - list
    - stop
  - name: actions
    description: Available fault injection action types from AWS
    actions:
    - get
    - list
  - name: target-resource-types
    description: AWS resource types that can be targeted
    actions:
    - get
    - list
  - name: safety-levers
    description: Safety mechanisms to control experiment execution
    actions:
    - get
    - update
  - name: target-account-configurations
    description: Multi-account experiment targeting configurations
    actions:
    - create
    - get
    - list
    - update
    - delete
  - name: tags
    description: Resource tags for FIS resources
    actions:
    - list
    - tag
    - untag
  actions:
  - name: create
    httpMethod: POST
    pattern: write
  - name: get
    httpMethod: GET
    pattern: read
  - name: list
    httpMethod: GET
    pattern: read
  - name: update
    httpMethod: PATCH
    pattern: write
  - name: delete
    httpMethod: DELETE
    pattern: destructive
  - name: start
    httpMethod: POST
    pattern: write
  - name: stop
    httpMethod: DELETE
    pattern: destructive
  schemas:
    core:
    - name: ExperimentTemplate
      description: Fault injection scenario template
      key_properties:
      - id
      - description
      - targets
      - actions
      - stopConditions
    - name: Experiment
      description: Running experiment instance
      key_properties:
      - id
      - experimentTemplateId
      - state
    - name: Action
      description: FIS fault injection action
      key_properties:
      - id
      - description
      - targets
    - name: SafetyLever
      description: Safety control mechanism
      key_properties:
      - id
      - arn
      - state
  enums:
    experiment_statuses:
    - pending
    - initiating
    - running
    - completed
    - stopping
    - stopped
    - failed
    safety_lever_statuses:
    - engaged
    - disengaged
    - engaging
    - disengaging
    selection_modes:
    - ALL
    - COUNT(n)
    - PERCENT(n)
  authentication:
    scheme: AWS Signature Version 4
    type: apiKey
    headerName: Authorization
capability:
  workflows:
  - name: AWS FIS Chaos Engineering
    file: capabilities/amazon-fis-chaos-engineering.yaml
    description: Full chaos engineering lifecycle
    apis_combined:
    - AWS FIS API
    tool_count: 13
    personas:
    - Resilience Engineer
    - SRE
    - DevOps Engineer
  personas:
  - id: resilience-engineer
    name: Resilience Engineer
    description: Engineers designing and running chaos experiments to improve system reliability
    workflows:
    - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  - id: sre
    name: Site Reliability Engineer
    description: SREs using FIS to validate service resilience targets
    workflows:
    - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  - id: devops-engineer
    name: DevOps Engineer
    description: Engineers integrating FIS into CI/CD for automated resilience testing
    workflows:
    - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  domains:
  - name: Chaos Engineering
    description: Deliberate fault injection to test system resilience
  - name: Resilience Testing
    description: Validating application behavior under failure conditions
  - name: Observability
    description: Monitoring system behavior during controlled experiments
  namespaces:
  - type: consumed
    namespace: fis
    source: AWS FIS API
  - type: rest
    namespace: fis-chaos-api
    port: 8080
  - type: mcp
    namespace: fis-chaos-mcp
    port: 9090
  binds:
  - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  - AWS_REGION
crossReference:
- resource: experiment-templates
  operations:
  - create-experiment-template
  - get-experiment-template
  - list-experiment-templates
  - update-experiment-template
  - delete-experiment-template
  workflows:
  - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  personas:
  - Resilience Engineer
  - DevOps Engineer
- resource: experiments
  operations:
  - start-experiment
  - get-experiment
  - list-experiments
  - stop-experiment
  workflows:
  - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  personas:
  - Resilience Engineer
  - SRE
- resource: safety-levers
  operations:
  - get-safety-lever
  - update-safety-lever-state
  workflows:
  - amazon-fis-chaos-engineering
  personas:
  - Resilience Engineer
  - SRE