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Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2023

2023 was a rollercoaster year in tech, and we at the AWS Architecture Blog feel so fortunate to have shared in the excitement. As we move into 2024 and all of the new technologies we could see, we want to take a moment to highlight the brightest stars from 2023. As always, thanks to our […]

Architecture flow for Microservices to simulate a realistic failure scenario

Simulating Kubernetes-workload AZ failures with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

In highly distributed systems, it is crucial to ensure that applications function correctly even during infrastructure failures. One common infrastructure failure scenario is when an entire Availability Zone (AZ) becomes unavailable. Applications are often deployed across multiple AZs to ensure high availability and fault tolerance in cloud environments such as HAQM Web Services (AWS). Kubernetes […]

Figure 1. Fault injection overview

Perform Chaos Testing on your HAQM Aurora Cluster

“Everything fails all the time” Werner Vogels, AWS CTO In 2010, Netflix introduced a tool called “Chaos Monkey”, that was used for introducing faults in a production environment. Chaos Monkey led to the birth of Chaos engineering where teams test their live applications by purposefully injecting faults. Observations are then used to take corrective action and […]