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How Steadybit Enhances Chaos Engineering with AWS FIS

AWS
13.01.2025 Summer Lambert - 5 minute read
How Steadybit Enhances Chaos Engineering with AWS FIS

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) gives teams a starting point for chaos experiments in AWS environments. But for hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, its scope can feel limited. Steadybit expands those boundaries, offering a more versatile solution. By working alongside AWS FIS, Steadybit brings control, flexibility, and simplicity to chaos engineering across diverse infrastructures.

Why Pair Steadybit with AWS FIS?

AWS FIS focuses on fault injection within AWS, covering services like Kubernetes, EC2, and serverless. For teams managing broader environments or needing deeper experimentation, Steadybit adds significant value.

What Steadybit Brings to the Table

  • Cross-Environment Support: Steadybit runs chaos experiments across AWS, other cloud providers, and on-premises systems, ensuring hybrid cloud resilience.
  • Intuitive Orchestration: Its easy-to-navigate UI simplifies setup, execution, and permissions management.
  • Custom Experiment Design: Build tailored fault scenarios and leverage pre-built templates to simulate the most relevant failures.
  • Enterprise Features: Includes SSO, pre-flight checks, and options for secure, on-prem deployment.

Beyond AWS-Centric Chaos Engineering

With Steadybit, chaos engineering isn’t confined to one platform. Extend your experiments to:

  • Kubernetes Clusters: Inject faults across cloud and on-prem Kubernetes environments.
  • On-Prem Systems: Simulate failures in local data centers and interconnected environments.
  • Custom Apps: Test resilience in bespoke systems, ensuring unique setups are robust.

For example, imagine a workload spread across AWS Lambda, GCP Kubernetes, and a legacy on-prem setup. AWS FIS can handle AWS scenarios, but adding Steadybit ensures you’re testing the full ecosystem, not just one slice..

Why Steadybit Stands Out

When it comes to chaos engineering in hybrid environments, Steadybit offers features AWS FIS doesn’t:

  • Seamless Multi-Cloud Support: Simulate outages across cloud and on-prem environments.
  • User-Friendly Experience: A clear interface lowers the barrier for teams adopting chaos engineering.
  • Richer Fault Scenarios: Go beyond basic injection to test complex, multi-point failures.
  • Built for Enterprises: Features like SSO and robust reporting cater to demanding organizations.
  • Transparent Costs: Annual pricing keeps budgets predictable, unlike FIS’s usage-based model.

Integrating with Observability Solutions

While AWS FIS doesn’t integrate with observability tools like Datadog or Dynatrace, Steadybit ensures your observability stack remains a key player in chaos engineering. By integrating with observability solutions, Steadybit helps you confirm that your monitoring tools work as expected, even when systems fail. This means you’re not just testing your infrastructure’s resilience but also validating the reliability of the insights you depend on during critical incidents.

Bringing It All Together

Steadybit transforms chaos engineering into a seamless, comprehensive process that adapts to the complexity of modern systems. By extending AWS FIS capabilities and integrating observability, it provides teams with the tools to uncover vulnerabilities, validate monitoring solutions, and ensure resilience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Whether you’re managing cloud-native services, on-prem systems, or a mix of both, Steadybit equips you to face real-world challenges with confidence and clarity.