AWS – Aurora DSQL now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports application resiliency testing with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve application performance, observability, and resilience. With this launch, customers can simulate real-world scenarios that disrupt connections to Aurora DSQL clusters, such as during regional failures, enabling them to observe how their applications respond to these disruptions and validate their resilience mechanisms.

Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. The new FIS action creates scenarios where applications need to handle connection disruptions or complete inaccessibility to an Aurora DSQL cluster in an AWS Region, enabling customers to test application resilience and recovery capabilities. This lets customers test and build confidence that their applications respond as intended when experiencing connection issues, whether they operate within a single Region or across multiple Regions. Customers can create experiment templates in FIS to integrate experiments with continuous integration and release testing. Customers can also generate detailed reports of their FIS experiments and store them in Amazon S3, enabling them to audit and demonstrate compliance with both organizational and regulatory resilience testing requirements.

Aurora DSQL support for FIS is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and Europe (Paris). To get started, visit the Aurora DSQL FIS actions documentation.

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