The following table describes important documentation updates in the AWS Fault Injection Service User Guide.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
You can use AWS FIS to test how ARC zonal autoshift automatically recovers your application during an AZ power interruption. | March 26, 2025 | |
You can now enable AWS FIS to generate reports for experiments that summarize experiment actions and responses from CloudWatch dashboards. | November 12, 2024 | |
You can now use aws:lambda:function actions to inject faults into invocations of your Lambda functions. | October 31, 2024 | |
AWS FIS now supports safety levers which allow you to quickly stop all running experiments and prevent new experiments from starting. | September 3, 2024 | |
AWS FIS added a troubleshooting guide that includes error codes and context for failed experiments. | August 13, 2024 | |
You can now use the | April 24, 2024 | |
You can set actions mode to | March 13, 2024 | |
AWS FIS updated existing managed policies. | January 25, 2024 | |
You can now use AWS FIS scenarios Cross-Region:Connectivity and AZ Availability: Power Interruption. | November 30, 2023 | |
New action | You can now use the aws:ec2:asg-insufficient-instance-capacity-error action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:ec2:api-insufficient-instance-capacity-error action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:network:route-table-disrupt-cross-region-connectivity action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:network:transit-gateway-disrupt-cross-region-connectivity action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:dynamodb:encrypted-global-table-pause-replication action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:s3:bucket-pause-replication action. | November 30, 2023 |
New action | You can now use the aws:elasticache:interrupt-cluster-az-power action. | November 30, 2023 |
You can now use AWS FIS experiment options for account targeting and empty target resolution. | November 27, 2023 | |
Name change of AWS FIS | Updated service name to AWS Fault Injection Service. | November 15, 2023 |
AWS FIS updated existing managed policies. | November 13, 2023 | |
You can now use the AWS FIS scenario library feature. | November 7, 2023 | |
You can now use the AWS FIS experiment scheduler feature. | November 7, 2023 | |
AWS FIS updated existing managed policies. | June 2, 2023 | |
New actions | You can use the new aws:ecs:task and aws:eks:pod actions. | June 1, 2023 |
AWS FIS updated existing managed policies. | June 1, 2023 | |
New pre-configured SSM document | You can use the following pre-configured SSM document: AWSFIS-Run-Disk-Fill. | April 28, 2023 |
New action | You can use the aws:ebs:pause-volume-io action to pause I/O between the target volumes and the instances they are attached to. | January 27, 2023 |
New action | You can use the aws:network:disrupt-connectivity action to deny specific types of traffic to the target subnets. | October 26, 2022 |
New action | You can use the aws:eks:inject-kubernetes-custom-resource action to run a ChaosMesh or Litmus experiment on a single target cluster. | July 7, 2022 |
Experiment logging | You can configure your experiment templates to send experiment activity logs to CloudWatch Logs or to an S3 bucket. | February 28, 2022 |
New notifications | When the state of an experiment changes, AWS FIS emits a notification. These notifications are made available as events through Amazon EventBridge. | February 24, 2022 |
New action | You can use the aws:ecs:stop-task action to stop the specified task. | February 9, 2022 |
New action | You can use the aws:cloudwatch:assert-alarm-state action to verify that the specified alarms are in one of the specified alarm states. | November 5, 2021 |
New pre-configured SSM documents | You can use the following pre-configured SSM documents: AWSFIS-Run-IO-Stress, AWSFIS-Run-Network-Blackhold-Port, AWSFIS-Run-Network-Latency-Sources, AWSFIS-Run-Network-Packet-Loss, and AWSFIS-Run-Network-Packet-Loss-Sources. | November 4, 2021 |
New action | You can use the aws:ec2:send-spot-instance-interruptions action to send a Spot Instance interruption notice to target Spot Instances and then interrupt the target Spot Instances. | October 20, 2021 |
New action | You can use the aws:ssm:start-automation-execution action to initiate the execution of an Automation runbook. | September 17, 2021 |
Initial release | The initial release of the AWS Fault Injection Service User Guide. | March 15, 2021 |
