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Configuring AWS Fault Injection Simulator Experiments

The challenge for this lab is to configure and run three AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) experiments in the provided lab environment.

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Clock icon 45m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 26, 2025

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  1. Challenge

    Successfully Run an Experiment to Stop an EC2 Instance

    Successfully run an experiment to test the following hypothesis:

    If an EC2 instance is stopped, the Elastic Load Balancer will mark the instance as unhealthy.

    Use an action type of aws:ec2:stop-instances and resource type of aws:ec2:instance.

    Run the experiment using the my-test-fis-role IAM role provided in the lab environment.

  2. Challenge

    Successfully Run an Experiment to Reboot an EC2 Instance

    Successfully run an experiment to test the following hypothesis:

    If the httpd service fails to start after an instance is rebooted, the Elastic Load Balancer will mark the instance as unhealthy.

    Use an action type of aws:ec2:reboot-instances and resource type of aws:ec2:instance.

    Run the experiment using the my-test-fis-role IAM role provided in the lab environment.

  3. Challenge

    Successfully Run an Experiment to Terminate an EC2 Instance

    Successfully run an experiment to test the following hypothesis:

    If an EC2 instance is terminated, the Auto Scaling group will launch a new instance and register it with the Elastic Load Balancer.

    Use an action type of aws:ec2:terminate-instances and resource type of aws:ec2:instance.

    Run the experiment using the my-test-fis-role IAM role provided in the lab environment.

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