Steadybit vs. AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)

AWS FIS is great for getting started, but it doesn’t scale. Steadybit is designed to enable proactive reliability testing across applications, teams, and technologies.

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Why teams go with Steadybit over AWS FIS

Steadybit is the only chaos engineering tool that offers open source customization with enterprise-grade features.

Experiments for AWS & Beyond

Experiment on targets across your tech stack, whether it’s SaaS, On-Prem, air-gapped, multi-cloud, serverless… With one agent per network, deployment is simple.

Get Insights Faster

We provide recommended experiments so you can get value from experiments right away. Try a variety of attacks quickly and safely with our library of ready-to-run templates.

Fully Customizable

With an open source extension framework, Steadybit enables teams to customize the platform to perfectly fit their systems and use cases. Add your own custom actions!

Steadybit Lowers the Chaos Engineering Learning Curve

With an intuitive, extensible platform; it’s easier to shift left your testing and build a culture of reliability.

Comparing Steadybit vs. Other Tools

See the exact benefits of reliability testing with Steadybit compared to other tools like AWS FIS.

Building Your First Experiment

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Running Your First Experiment

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Reviewing Reliability Advice

Start making reliability improvements fast by reviewing issues Steadybit flags automatically.

Automating Experiment Workflows

Incorporate experiments into your software development however you want by using the Steadybit API and CLI.

Make Steadybit Your Own with Custom Extensions

Add your own custom extensions, checks, attacks, load tests, & advice.

Need a new integration or want to inject a custom fault? With AWS FIS, customization options are limited so you’ll have to submit feature requests and wait for improvements.

With Extension Kits, you can build on top of Steadybit to create the perfect solution for your organization. Get the benefits of a in-house tool without the maintenance.

Need inspiration? Use our library of 200+ open source actions and templates anytime.

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Why SRE & platform teams choose us

Our customers inspire us everyday with new experiment types and custom extensions to really push their systems to the limit.

"With Steadybit, we identified issues and took corrective measures, improving our overall system resilience. The efficiency of finding these weak spots has vastly increased with Steadybit, and the time to deliver a solution has significantly decreased. We're moving closer to achieving our target of 99.99% uptime."

Krishna Palati

Director of Software Engineering
"I really benefit from Steadybit's programmatic scalability and its interesting features like reliability advice, which bolster our chaos engineering strategy and help it grow into a more self-service capacity. The support team is great; they are always eager to assist us, gather requirements for new features, and help with any implementation issues or malfunctions related to their services."

Angel Daniel B.

Engineering Lead
“Steadybit makes it easy to inject faults and really test our system reliability. Their team delivered a new Kafka extension for us that has unlocked new testing possibilities. They are a supportive partner that has made introducing the platforms to new teams easy.”

Jan Rundshagen

Cloud Platform Engineer
"My experience with Steadybit has been genuinely impressive from day one. The installation was smooth and effortless—we were able to run experiments straight away, which was a huge relief after the challenges we faced with other tools. What really stood out, though, was the team behind it."

Chaos Engineer

@ Global Telecom Company
"Steadybit's efficiency enabled us to simulate and anticipate incidents, fostering proactive problem-solving across our teams."

Antoine Choimet

Site Reliability Engineer
"Steadybit is helping us move from reactive incident handling to proactive reliability engineering, which is a significant shift for an organization of our size. The Steadybit team is highly responsive, technically strong, and genuinely invested in our success."

Ilias Tsakiridis

Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead
"Effortless chaos experiments with an intuitive interface. I like how easy it is to create and safely run chaos experiments, and how intuitive the interface is. Steadybit helps identify and fix reliability weaknesses before they become incidents."

Software Developer

@ Global Ecommerce Company
"Steadybit offers a scalable and performant Chaos Engineering solution that has significantly improved the resilience of our services. If you are seeking a wholistic, end-to-end Chaos Engineering platform, I’d strongly recommend Steadybit."

Krishna Palati

Director of Software Engineering

Predictable Pricing

Our plans are designed so there are no surprise charges as you are rolling out chaos engineering across your organization.

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Open Source Integrations

Sometimes your organization may need proprietary or niche solutions. Leverage our extension kits to gain flexibility and make Steadybit your own.

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Steadybit is designed for seamless testing rollouts

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Support for On-Premises

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Monitoring & Load Testing

Query targets to create the exact experiment you want

When you install our agent on your network, Steadybit will automatically discover any potential experiment targets and pull in related metadata from your environment. With our intuitive query language, you can easily explore targets and view them in an interactive visualization with groups and filters.

AWS FIS doesn’t provide a interactive visualization of your systems. There are limited options for selecting targets for experiments, and no ability to add custom attributes.

Leading the industry for On-Prem Chaos Engineering

Steadybit has always supported both SaaS and On-Prem deployments with full feature parity from Day 1. Our team has helped enterprise customers deploy and update Steadybit On-Prem for years.

AWS FIS doesn’t support On-Prem deployments. If you have a hybrid architecture, AWS FIS won’t be able to run tests across both resources.

Bidirectional integrations with popular observability tools

Monitoring and observability tools are key for seeing how your systems perform. Steadybit has tight integrations with tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Instana, and more. While you watch your experiment run, you’ll be able to see in real-time whether your monitoring tool raises an alert.

AWS FIS has an integration with CloudWatch, but it doesn’t connect seamlessly with popular 3rd-party monitoring tools. It also doesn’t have integrations with load testing tools like K6, JMeter, and Gatling. These gaps make it hard to run the most realistic experiments with the best visibility.

Faster Deployment and an Open Source Framework

AWS FIS is a closed-sourced tool that requires heavy investment in the AWS ecosystem. Steadybit is a hybrid-source platform designed for customization and easy deployment across a wide variety of targets.

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