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Created September 26, 2013 17:23
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Simius Quies: Block all networking on the instance using EC2 security groups (network failure)
Simius Desertus: Null-route the 10.0.0.0 network (failure of the internal EC2 network)
Simius Perditus: Cause packet loss (degradation of EC2 network)
Simius Tardus: Add packet latency (degradation of EC2 network)
Simius Politicus: Cause packet corruption (degradation of EC2 network)
Simius Nonomenius: Block all DNS traffic (failure of DNS servers)
Simius Amnesius: Null-route S3 traffic (S3 failure)
Simius Noneccius: Null-route EC2 API traffic (EC2 control plane failure)
Simius Nodynamus: Null-route DynamoDB traffic (DynamoDB failure)
Simius Amputa: Disconnect all EBS volumes (EBS failure)
Simius Cogitarius: Burn CPU (noisy-neighbor / CPU issue)
Simius Occupatus: Burn disk I/O (noisy-neighbor / disk issue)
Simius Plenus: Fill up all available space on the root disk (disk full error or disk failure)
Simius Delirius: Kill all java & python processes on the machine repeatedly (general application fault)
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