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Anthony Pasquariello

Author: Anthony Pasquariello

Anthony is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS based in New York City. He specializes in modernization and security for our advanced enterprise customers. Anthony enjoys writing and speaking about all things cloud. He’s pursuing an MBA, and received his MS and BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Figure 1. Fault injection overview

Perform Chaos Testing on your Amazon 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 […]