Amazon Fault Injection Simulator · JSON Structure

Amazon Fis Experiment Template Structure

An experiment template defining fault injection targets, actions, and stop conditions

Type: object Properties: 10
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ExperimentTemplate is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon Fault Injection Simulator, describing 10 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

id arn description targets actions stopConditions creationTime lastUpdateTime roleArn tags

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-fault-injection-simulator/refs/heads/main/json-structure/amazon-fis-experiment-template-structure.json",
  "description": "An experiment template defining fault injection targets, actions, and stop conditions",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Template ID",
      "example": "EXT123"
    },
    "arn": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Template ARN",
      "example": "arn:aws:fis:us-east-1:123456789012:experiment-template/EXT123"
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Template description",
      "example": "Test EC2 instance failure"
    },
    "targets": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Target definitions",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ExperimentTemplateTarget"
      }
    },
    "actions": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Action definitions",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ExperimentTemplateAction"
      }
    },
    "stopConditions": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Stop conditions",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ExperimentTemplateStopCondition"
      }
    },
    "creationTime": {
      "type": "datetime",
      "description": "Template creation time",
      "example": "2026-04-19T12:00:00Z"
    },
    "lastUpdateTime": {
      "type": "datetime",
      "description": "Last update time"
    },
    "roleArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "IAM role ARN for experiment execution"
    },
    "tags": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Resource tags",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    }
  },
  "name": "ExperimentTemplate"
}