AWS Chaos Engineering: Designing Resilient Systems with FIS

Modern cloud architectures must be resilient to inevitable failures. This text-based course guides you through the principles of chaos engineering, showing you how to proactively find weaknesses in your AWS infrastructure before they cause outages. You will transition from guessing how your cloud systems behave under stress to scientifically proving their resilience. By reading through clear, step-by-step experiment designs, you will learn to safely inject faults into your environments and verify your system's recovery mechanisms. What you'll learn: - Understand foundational chaos engineering principles, including the steady-state hypothesis and game day planning. - Configure AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to safely orchestrate controlled disruptions. - Design experiments to test resilience on EC2 instances, Aurora databases, and containerized workloads like Fargate and EKS. - Analyze multi-availability zone failures to ensure automatic failover and high availability. - Apply modern observability practices using metrics and logs to monitor experiment outcomes and verify system recovery. - Integrate chaos experiments into continuous delivery pipelines to maintain ongoing architectural resilience. The course begins with core terminology, foundational safety guardrails, and experiment planning. You will then progress through detailed, text-guided scenarios covering compute, database, container, and network-level fault injection. This course is designed for cloud engineers, developers, and DevOps beginners looking to master resilience testing on AWS. No prior chaos engineering experience is required, though a basic understanding of AWS services is helpful. Start reading today to build systems that survive any failure.