AWS Fault Injection Service
6.2#10 in chaos engineering platforms$0.10, paid onceWebAPILinuxmacOS
VisitAWS Fault Injection Service vs Gremlin
What both publish
| Fact | AWS Fault Injection Service | Gremlin |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | FIS can be accessed through the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, and HTTPS API, and its APIs can be used in CI/CD pipelines and custom tooling. | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira and configurable REST webhooks. |
| Purpose | AWS FIS runs fault injection experiments on AWS workloads to help teams improve application performance, observability, and resilience. | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. |
| Safety controls | Experiments can use tags to select targets and CloudWatch alarms or other tools to stop an experiment when conditions are met. | Gremlin supports blast radius controls and automatic halt and rollback of experiments if issues arise. |
AWS Fault Injection Service plans
- AWS Fault Injection Service$0.10, paid once
Gremlin plans
- Gremlin 30-day trialFree
- Gremlin Platform trialFree
- Gremlin Reliability Management Platform on AWS Marketplace$45,000 a year
- Gremlin Foresight AIPriced on request
- Fault injection suite (stand-alone)Priced on request
- Professional ServicesPriced on request
Pick AWS Fault Injection Service if…
FIS suits teams that want to examine how AWS workloads respond to controlled disruptions. It is especially relevant to teams able to plan experiments carefully and use pre-production before production.
Pick Gremlin if…
Gremlin is aimed at SRE and platform teams, including teams in financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS. It also suits teams that need self-hosting rather than SaaS.