# aws-fault-injection-service

Designs, runs, and analyzes chaos experiments in AWS Fault Injection Service. It helps test application resilience against AZ outages, network packet loss, and compute failures.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1000 installs · ★ 3282
- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

This skill translates failure testing ideas into AWS FIS experiment templates. The agent picks matching FIS catalog actions and scopes target resources alongside CloudWatch stop conditions. Available scenarios include Availability Zone power interruptions and compute stress on EC2 or EKS.

Experiments run against real AWS infrastructure. The skill works best with the AWS MCP server for sandboxed execution and logging, though direct AWS CLI calls via `aws fis` work too. If a CloudWatch alarm triggers during execution, FIS stops the experiment immediately. A stopped run cannot be resumed. You must start a new one from the template.

Check prerequisites carefully. Specific network faults and EBS actions require Nitro-based EC2 instances or the SSM Agent. In addition, an experiment fails immediately at launch if target resolution finds zero resources, unless the template sets `emptyTargetResolutionMode` to `skip`.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-fault-injection-service -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-fault-injection-service -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-fault-injection-service -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-fault-injection-service
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-fault-injection-service -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-fault-injection-service
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-fault-injection-service -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-fault-injection-service/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- simulate an Availability Zone power outage in AWS
- generate an AWS FIS experiment template with stop conditions
- test application resilience against network latency and packet loss
- verify cluster recovery after EC2 or EKS pod disruptions

## Example prompts
- Help me build an AWS FIS experiment template for AZ power interruption
- Generate an AWS CLI command to run an FIS CPU stress test on EC2
- How do I configure a CloudWatch stop condition for an FIS experiment?

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: aws-fault-injection-service
description: >
  Plans, builds, runs, and analyzes fault injection experiments with AWS Fault Injection Service
  (AWS FIS) to validate application resilience through chaos engineering. Covers experiment
  templates (actions, targets, stop conditions), the FIS actions catalog and action selection,
  the scenario library (AZ power interruption, cross-Region connectivity, EC2/EKS/EBS stress),
  experiment lifecycle and monitoring, logging and reports, multi-account experiments, the
  experiment IAM role, and blast-radius safety. Applies when a user mentions AWS FIS or fault
  injection, asks what experiment to run for a failure mode (AZ, Region, API errors/throttling,
  instance/pod/DB/cache failure, latency, packet loss), wants to author an experiment template or
  CLI/CloudFormation, or needs to safely run chaos experiments in pre-production or production.
  For the broader resilience program across Resilience Hub and ARC, see aws-resilience-lifecycle;
  for ARC routing controls and zonal shift, see recovery-controller-setup.
version: 1
---

# AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) Experiments

## Overview

Domain expertise for AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) — a managed chaos-engineering
service that runs controlled fault injection experiments on real AWS resources so you can
observe how an application responds to disruption and improve its resilience.

This skill lets an agent do three things:

1. **Suggest the right experiment** — map a user's failure scenario or resilience question to
   the correct FIS action(s), scenario, or experiment design, and explain the trade-offs.
2. **Build and run experiments** — author experiment templates (actions, targets, stop
   conditions, logging, reports), wire up the experiment IAM role, and drive the run/monitor/stop
   lifecycle via CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation.
3. **Inform the user** — answer conceptual questions about FIS terminology, safety, pricing,
   supported services, and how FIS fits into a resilience program.

> **AWS FIS carries out real actions on real AWS resources.** Before running any experiment in
> production, plan it, run it first in pre-production, and always bound the blast radius with a
> stop condition. Treat fault injection as a privileged, potentially disruptive operation.
>
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