Simulating outages with LocalStack Chaos API

LocalStack Chaos API enables you to simulate outages in any AWS region or service. Chaos API provides an easy way to implement chaos engineering experiments to test a wide variety of simulated outages and failures within your application safely, without impacting your production users.Common examples can include:- Region-wide outages- DNS failovers- Service failures- Network faultsAll the testing scenarios described above can be executed within LocalStack, providing thorough coverage for critical situations in a matter of minutes rather than hours or days.In this presentation by Viren Nadkarni, we explore how Chaos API is leveraged to perform service failures in a local environment while using robust error handling to address and mitigate such issues.## Resources- Documentation: https://docs.localstack.cloud/user-guide/chaos-engineering/chaos-api/- Get access: https://www.localstack.cloud/contact

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