# Amazon Fault Injection Simulator

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-fault-injection-simulator/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/fis/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 42.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 33.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 8 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Fault Injection Simulator Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **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.

## Tags

Chaos Engineering, DevOps, Fault Injection, Resilience Testing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-fault-injection-simulator/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.