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by jjav 1651 days ago
> * Free chaos monkey installed in every AZ

Only during this beta period, AWS will start charging for this feature soon enough.

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We (Netflix) begged them for years to create a Chaos Monkey that we could pay for. There were things we just couldn't do ourselves, like simulate a power pull or just drop all network packets on the bare metal. I guess not enough people asked.
CMaaS sounds amazing for resiliency engineering. There's so much I want to be doing to perturb our stack, but I don't know all the ways stuff can go wrong. Sure I can ddos it, kick services and servers offline, etc, but that's what, a few dozen failure modes? Expertise in chaos would be valuable by itself. Not to mention being able to shake parts of the system I normally can't touch.

Side note: terraform is pretty good for causing various kinds of chaos, deliberately or otherwise.