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The purpose if this lab is to teach you the fundamentals of using tests to ensure your implementation is resilient to failure by injecting failure modes into your application. This may be a familiar concept to companies that practice Failure Mode Engineering Analysis (FMEA). It is also a key component of Chaos Engineering, which uses such failure injection to test hypotheses about workload resiliency. One primary capability that AWS provides is the ability to test your systems at a production scale, under load.
It is not sufficient to only design for failure, you must also test to ensure that you understand how the failure will cause your systems to behave. The act of conducting these tests will also give you the ability to create playbooks how to investigate failures. You will also be able to create playbooks for identifying root causes. If you conduct these tests regularly, then you will identify changes to your application that are not resilient to failure and also create the skills to react to unexpected failures in a calm and predictable manner.
In this lab, you will deploy a 3-tier resource, with a reverse proxy (Application Load Balancer), Web Application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and MySQL database using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). There is also an option to deploy the same stack into a different region, which provides you the ability to progress from simpler component failure testing to failure testing under a simulated AWS regional failure.
The skills you learn will help you build resilient workloads in alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
This 300 level lab covers multiple failure injection scenarios. If you would prefer a simpler 200 level lab that demonstrates only EC2 failure injection, then see Level 200: Testing for Resiliency of EC2 instances . This 300 level lab here includes everything in the 200 level lab, plus additional failure simulations.
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NOTE: You will be billed for any applicable AWS resources used if you complete this lab that are not covered in the AWS Free Tier .