Why Chaos?

Modern distributed systems fail in unexpected ways. No amount of testing can predict every failure mode. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system to build confidence in its capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

Instead of waiting for 3 AM incidents to discover your system's weaknesses, chaos engineering lets you find them on your terms—during business hours, with the team ready, in a controlled environment.

The result: fewer surprises, faster recovery, and systems that gracefully degrade instead of catastrophically fail.

Our Process

A structured approach to building a sustainable chaos engineering practice.

1

Steady State

Define Normal

Establish measurable indicators of healthy system behavior—your steady state hypothesis

Identify Targets

Map critical paths, dependencies, and high-risk components for experimentation

2

Hypothesize

Design Experiments

Create hypotheses about system behavior under specific failure conditions

Plan Game Days

Schedule experiments with clear scope, blast radius limits, and abort criteria

3

Experiment

Inject Faults

Run controlled experiments using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)

Observe & Measure

Monitor system behavior, compare against steady state, record findings

4

Improve

Learn & Harden
  • Document findings and surprises
  • Prioritize and fix weaknesses
  • Update runbooks and alerts
  • Automate experiments in CI/CD

Experiment Types

Common fault injection scenarios we run with AWS Fault Injection Simulator.

EC2 & Instance Failures

Terminate instances, stress CPU/memory, simulate spot interruptions. Verify auto-scaling and failover behavior.

Network Disruptions

Inject latency, packet loss, and blackhole traffic. Test timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers.

Database Failures

Force RDS failovers, simulate replica lag, test connection pool exhaustion and recovery.

Container Chaos

Kill ECS tasks, stress EKS pods, test container orchestration resilience and scheduling.

AZ & Region Failures

Simulate availability zone outages. Verify multi-AZ deployments actually work under pressure.

Dependency Failures

Block calls to downstream services, APIs, and third parties. Test graceful degradation patterns.

AI-Powered Chaos Intelligence

Machine learning that makes your chaos experiments smarter and more effective.

Experiment Suggestions

AI analyzes your architecture, traffic patterns, and incident history to recommend the most valuable experiments to run next.

Predictive Failure Analysis

ML models identify components likely to fail under stress before you run experiments, helping prioritize hardening efforts.

Hypothesis Generation

Automated generation of experiment hypotheses based on system topology, past incidents, and industry failure patterns.

Blast Radius Estimation

AI-powered impact prediction helps you understand potential customer impact before running experiments.

Results Correlation

Automatically correlate experiment results with metrics, logs, and traces to surface hidden dependencies and failure modes.

Adaptive Experiments

Experiments that automatically adjust intensity based on real-time system response, maximizing learning while minimizing risk.

Engagement Options

From one-off game days to embedded chaos engineering practices.

Game Day

A facilitated chaos engineering session to stress-test a specific system.

1-2 Days
  • Pre-game planning and hypothesis
  • Facilitated experiment execution
  • Real-time observation and analysis
  • Findings report with recommendations
  • Runbook updates
Schedule Game Day

Chaos Retainer

Ongoing chaos engineering support and experiment development.

Monthly
  • Monthly game days
  • New experiment development
  • Incident-driven experiments
  • Chaos tooling maintenance
  • Quarterly chaos reviews
Discuss Retainer

Ready to Break Things On Purpose?

Let's discuss how chaos engineering can build confidence in your system's resilience.

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