Amazon Fault Injection Simulator
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS. It allows you to improve an application's performance, observability, and resiliency by identifying and fixing weaknesses through controlled chaos engineering experiments.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator is listed with 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Actions API, Experiment Templates API, Experiments API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, Chaos Engineering, DevOps, and Resilience Testing.
The Amazon Fault Injection Simulator catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, and 25 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 8
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Actions API
Discover available FIS fault injection actions
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Experiment Templates API
Create and manage fault injection experiment templates
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Experiments API
Start, stop, and monitor fault injection experiments
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Safety Levers API
Manage safety levers for experiment control
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Tagging API
Manage tags on FIS resources
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Target Resource Types API
Discover available target resource types
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Fault Injection Simulator Operations API
The Fault Injection Simulator Operations API from Amazon Fault Injection Simulator — 1 operation(s) for fault injection simulator operations.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Fault Injection Simulator Targetaccountconfigurations API
The Fault Injection Simulator Targetaccountconfigurations API from Amazon Fault Injection Simulator — 4 operation(s) for fault injection simulator targetaccountconfigurations.
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Postman Collections 1
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
AWS Fault Injection Simulator Actions API
OPEN COLLECTIONAWS Fault Injection Simulator Actions Experiments API
OPEN COLLECTIONAWS Fault Injection Simulator Actions Safety Levers API
OPEN COLLECTIONAWS Fault Injection Simulator Actions Tagging API
OPEN COLLECTIONAWS Fault Injection Simulator API
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Arazzo Workflows 7
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
AWS FIS Discover Action Detail
List the available FIS actions and fetch the full detail of the first action returned.
ARAZZOAWS FIS Discover Target Resource Type
List the supported target resource types and fetch the full detail of the first one returned.
ARAZZOAWS FIS Find and Stop Running Experiment
List experiments for a template, and if the first one is still active, stop it and confirm the stop.
ARAZZOAWS FIS List Then Get Experiment Template
List experiment templates and fetch the full definition of the first one returned.
ARAZZOAWS FIS Run Experiment to Completion
Create an experiment template, start an experiment from it, and poll until the experiment reaches a terminal state.
ARAZZOAWS FIS Start Then Stop Experiment
Start an experiment from an existing template, confirm it is running, stop it, and poll until it is fully stopped.
ARAZZOAWS FIS Update Template Then Run
Fetch an existing experiment template, update its description, and start an experiment from the revised template.
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Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API pricing
Prices published by Amazon Fault Injection Simulator, read 2026-10-28 from aws.amazon.com/fis/pricing/.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Action-minute (standard regions) | $0.10 per action-minute |
| Action-minute (AWS GovCloud US-East and US-West) | $0.12 per action-minute |
| Experiment report | $5 per report |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
- Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
- Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute
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Billed by: action-minute · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 8
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Managed Fault Injection
Fully managed service requiring no agent installation with pre-built fault injection actions for EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS, and more.
Pre-built Scenarios
Ready-to-use resilience scenarios for AZ failures, power interruptions, network disruptions, and cross-region connectivity issues.
Safety Controls
CloudWatch alarm-based stop conditions and safety levers prevent unintended impact during live testing.
Fine-grained Targeting
Tag-based resource targeting scopes experiments to specific environments, applications, or resource subsets.
Multi-account Support
Run experiments across multiple AWS accounts using target account configurations.
CI/CD Integration
API and CLI access enables automated resilience testing in deployment pipelines.
Real-time Visibility
Console and API provide real-time status of executing actions, affected resources, and triggered stop conditions.
IAM Security
Fine-grained IAM controls restrict which users can create, run, or view experiments and affected resources.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Fis Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
JSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Action
JSON SCHEMAExperiment
JSON SCHEMAExperimentState
JSON SCHEMAExperimentTemplateAction
JSON SCHEMAExperimentTemplate
JSON SCHEMAExperimentTemplateStopCondition
JSON SCHEMAExperimentTemplateTarget
JSON SCHEMASafetyLever
JSON SCHEMASafetyLeverState
JSON SCHEMATargetResourceType
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JSON Structure 10
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Amazon Fis Action Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment Template Action Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment Template Stop Condition Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment Template Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Experiment Template Target Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Safety Lever State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Safety Lever Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Fis Target Resource Type Structure
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Examples 10
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Amazon Fis Action Example
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Agentic Access
18 operations · 8 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop
AGENTICUse Cases 6
What developers build with this provider.
Application Resilience Testing
Validate application behavior under resource failures before they occur in production.
Chaos Engineering
Run structured fault injection experiments following chaos engineering principles.
Observability Validation
Verify that monitoring and alerting systems detect and respond to failures correctly.
Game Days
Conduct planned game day exercises simulating failure scenarios for team readiness.
Automated Pipeline Testing
Integrate resilience testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.
Multi-region Failover Testing
Test cross-region failover mechanisms and recovery time objectives.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Source (apis.yml)
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API — frequently asked questions
Does Amazon Fault Injection Simulator have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Amazon Fault Injection Simulator, including Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Actions API, Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Experiment Templates API and Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Experiments API, and 5 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Amazon Fault Injection Simulator, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API?
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Authentication.
How much does the Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API cost?
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator publishes its prices; its Action-minute (standard regions) plan is $0.10 per action-minute as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Amazon Fault Injection Simulator, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Amazon Fault Injection Simulator API ready for AI agents?
Amazon Fault Injection Simulator has a Kin Score of 64.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 32.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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