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Azure Chaos Studio is Microsoft's managed chaos engineering service for injecting faults into Azure resources, run from the portal or by an AI agent.

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Introduction

Azure Chaos Studio is a managed service for chaos experiments on Azure. Experiments combine service-direct faults (for example, shutting down a VM or failing over Cosmos DB) and agent-based faults (such as CPU pressure inside a VM). The product page says you can test from the portal or with an AI agent.

Features

  1. Service-direct faults: Faults applied through Azure APIs.
  2. Agent-based faults: In-guest faults via an agent.
  3. AKS faults: Chaos Mesh-based faults for AKS.
  4. Experiment designer: Steps and branches in the portal.
  5. RBAC: Azure role-based access control.

Pros

Cons

  1. Azure only: Not for other clouds.
  2. Pricing details: See site for current rates.

Enable targets and capabilities on resources, create an experiment with fault steps in the portal, grant the experiment identity permissions and run it.

Resources:

Pricing

Usage-based; see Azure Chaos Studio pricing.

  1. Azure teams validating resilience.
  2. AKS users wanting managed chaos.
  3. Not a fit outside Azure.

Conclusion

Azure Chaos Studio brings managed chaos experiments to Azure resources.

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