Chaos experiments on Amazon RDS using AWS Fault Injection Simulator

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Performing controlled chaos experiments on your https://aws.amazon.com/rds/ database instances and validating the application behavior is essential to making sure that your application stack is resilient. These are some of the fundamental questions that you should consider when evaluating the resiliency of your database stack.

Target—A target is one or more AWS resources on which AWS FIS performs an action during an experiment.

We can also confirm the failover action by looking at the Logs and events section of the Aurora Cluster.

You can also delete the AWS FIS experiment template by following the steps in the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/working-with-templates.html documentation.

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