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Stop talking about disaster recovery and measure it. Pause DynamoDB global table replication with AWS FIS while a live two-Region application keeps writing, then count exactly how many records the surviving Region cannot see. Real Terraform, real RPO, real recovery time.
Leave EC2 behind. Stop a whole Fargate task set and force AWS Lambda invocations to error and to stall, using AWS FIS. Real Terraform, real numbers, and the exact setup gotchas for the Lambda fault-injection extension.
Sever the DynamoDB and S3 endpoints an application quietly depends on, using AWS FIS, and watch whether one dependency outage stays contained or takes the whole app down. Real Terraform, real per-endpoint numbers.
Take down an entire Availability Zone with AWS FIS: stop every instance in it, blackhole its subnet, and fail Aurora over. See whether a multi-AZ architecture really survives, and the roughly two-minute window that static stability does not erase.
Inject CPU stress, memory pressure, network latency, and packet loss into a whole EC2 fleet with AWS FIS. Watch network faults turn a healthy service into 7-second page loads while every error dashboard stays green. Real Terraform, real numbers.
When the database is completely gone, RDS Proxy and retries cannot help. Survive an extended Aurora outage with a circuit breaker, a DynamoDB read cache, and SQS write buffering. Real Terraform, real outage, real numbers.
Force an Aurora failover with AWS FIS and watch your application break. Then fix it with RDS Proxy, read/write separation, and retry logic. Real Terraform code, real experiment results.
Add CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and FIS stop conditions to your chaos engineering lab. See how guardrails automatically abort experiments when things go wrong.
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