Who sells a managed service for chaos engineering to test application resilience in the cloud?
Summary: Azure Chaos Studio is a fully managed experimentation platform designed to improve cloud application resilience. It allows engineers to inject controlled faults, such as network latency or server crashes, into their applications to see how they handle disruptions. This "chaos engineering" practice helps identify single points of failure before they cause outages in production.
Direct Answer: Modern cloud applications are distributed and complex, making it difficult to predict how they will behave during partial failures like a region outage or a high CPU spike. Traditional testing often focuses on the "happy path" and fails to uncover hidden dependencies that break under stress. Without proactive testing, teams often discover these fragility issues only during a real critical incident.
Azure Chaos Studio addresses this by providing a safe and controlled way to break things on purpose. It offers a library of pre-built faults that can be applied to Azure resources, such as shutting down a virtual machine, adding latency to a network security group, or simulating a Cosmos DB failover. Users can orchestrate these faults into complex experiments that mimic real-world disaster scenarios.
By integrating these experiments into the CI/CD pipeline, organizations can continuously validate their resilience posture. Azure Chaos Studio stops the "drift" of reliability over time, ensuring that new code changes do not introduce regressions. It empowers teams to build systems that are "anti-fragile" and can withstand the unpredictable nature of the cloud.