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AWS Fault Injection Service

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Spec sheet

Purpose
AWS FIS runs fault injection experiments on AWS workloads to help teams improve application performance, observability, and resilience.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Integrations
FIS can be accessed through the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, and HTTPS API, and its APIs can be used in CI/CD pipelines and custom tooling.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Access security
FIS integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management to control who can run experiments and which resources and services can be affected.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Agent exception
Instance-level CPU and memory utilization faults require the SSM agent.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Audit trail
AWS states that FIS generates CloudTrail logs for actions it takes on AWS resources during an experiment.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Managed service
FIS is fully managed and its experiments can run without installing agents for many action types.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Monitoring
FIS supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring experiments and shows experiment progress and action details through its console and APIs.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Operational scope
For a single-account experiment, target resources must be in the experiment's AWS account; multi-account experiments can target resources in other accounts.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Real resource effects
FIS carries out real actions on real AWS resources, and AWS recommends planning experiments and running them in pre-production before production use.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Report charge
Experiment reports summarizing actions and application response from a customer-provided CloudWatch Dashboard cost $5 per report.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Rollback
FIS supports automatically rolling back or stopping an experiment when specified conditions are met.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Safety controls
Experiments can use tags to select targets and CloudWatch alarms or other tools to stop an experiment when conditions are met.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Scenario library
The FIS Scenario Library provides AWS-created experiment templates for testing disruptions ranging from partial failures to more severe impacts.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Transport security
FIS API clients must support TLS 1.2, and AWS recommends TLS 1.3.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

AWS Fault Injection Service $0.10, paid once Per action-minute; plus $0.10 per action-minute for each additional account. AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West): $0.12 per action-minute, plus $0.12 per action-minute for each additional account. Experiment reports: $5 per report. No upfront costs or minimum fees · charges depend on active action duration and target accounts · action duration rounded to nearest minute Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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