Adrian Hornsby

Do you know if your system will behave as intended when exposed to underlying failures? In this session, explore how chaos engineering enables organizations to proactively identify system resilience weaknesses, improve operational excellence, and enhance incident response capabilities.

AWS provides isolation boundaries, including Availability Zones and AWS Regions, which can be used to meet high availability and continuity of operations requirements. To verify that your application behaves as expected, it’s critical to test its response to impairments.

AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed chaos engineering service that helps you improve application resiliency by making it easy and safe to perform controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS. In this session, see an overview of chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator, and then see a demo of how to use AWS Fault Injection Simulator to make applications more resilient...

Distributed software systems are composed of several individual subsystems (e.g., CDNs, load balancers, and databases) and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable behaviors caused by unforeseen turbulent events (e.g., a network failure) that can turn benign issues into catastrophic failures.

Immutable infrastructure is a model in which no updates, security patches, or configuration changes happen in place on production systems. If any change is needed, a new version of the architecture is built and deployed.

Customers are often looking at running their services at global scale, deploying applications to multiple regions. While it has traditionally been hard to do this—often requiring months of engineering work—serverless has changed the game!

Failures are inevitable. Regardless of the engineering efforts put into building resilient systems and handling edge cases, sometimes a case beyond our reach turns a benign failure into a catastrophic one.

In this chalk talk, we explore the technical implementation details AWS uses to achieve availability and reliability, the operational mechanisms used to ensure goals are achieved, and common problems encountered when these best practices are not implemented. The implementation and operational mechanisms are part of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, specifically the reliability and...