AWS Resilience Lifecycle
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This skill provides a structured, end-to-end approach to building and maintaining system resilience on AWS. It integrates three core services—Resilience Hub v2 (NGRH), Fault Injection Service (FIS), and Application Recovery Controller (ARC)—to move teams through a Define, Test, and Operate workflow. The skill emphasizes moving beyond paper compliance by requiring that all resilience findings are validated through controlled fault injection experiments before being marked as resolved.
What it does
- Defines resilience policies based on business criticality and service tiers.
- Guides the assessment of failure modes using Resilience Hub v2.
- Provides patterns for validating remediation through FIS experiments.
- Integrates operational controls using Application Recovery Controller.
- Enforces strict API usage to prevent common command hallucinations.
- Promotes progressive experiment complexity from single-fault to cascading scenarios.
When to use it
- When establishing a formal resilience program for AWS-based applications.
- When you need to connect resilience findings to actionable fault injection tests.
- When planning to implement operational failover controls using ARC.
- When you need to validate that your architecture meets RTO/RPO targets under real failure conditions.
Advantages
- Prevents paper compliance by mandating validation of fixes.
- Provides a clear, repeatable workflow for complex resilience tasks.
- Includes a hallucination-rejection guide for AWS CLI commands.
- Promotes a tiered, risk-based approach to resilience investment.
Usage examples
- “How do I start the resilience lifecycle for my new payment service?”
- The agent will guide you through creating a resilience policy, registering your service via CloudFormation or Terraform, and running an initial failure mode assessment.
- “I have a finding in Resilience Hub; can I just mark it as resolved?”
- The agent will explain that marking findings resolved without validation is paper compliance and will guide you to create an FIS experiment to prove the fix works.
Install
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AWS Resilience Lifecycle
Overview
Domain expertise for the integrated resilience lifecycle across three AWS services: Define (Resilience Hub v2 — also called NGRH, New Generation Resilience Hub) → Test (FIS) → Operate (ARC).
Terminology: in this skill an unqualified "Resilience Hub" always means v2 (NGRH / New Generation Resilience Hub, CLI namespace aws resiliencehubv2). v1 (aws resiliencehub) is referenced only explicitly, and only for migration.
The AWS MCP server is recommended for executing this skill's AWS API calls, but it is not required — all operations also work with the AWS CLI directly.
Guardrail — where this skill's own files live (MCP vs local install)
Before reading a reference file, determine how this skill was loaded:
Loaded via the AWS MCP
retrieve_skilltool: the skill's reference files are not on the local filesystem. Fetch each one throughretrieve_skillwith thefileparameter (e.g.file="references/lifecycle-workflow.md"orfile="references/api-reference.md") — do NOTfile_readthese paths locally or search the filesystem for them.Installed locally (e.g.
.kiro/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/or~/.claude/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/): read reference files from the local skill directory using the relative paths shown here.
This applies only to the skill's own reference files; always read and write user or session data in the working directory, never through retrieve_skill.
Execute the full lifecycle
To implement end-to-end resilience across all three services, follow the procedure exactly. See references/lifecycle-workflow.md.
For operational patterns and policy design guidance, see references/best-practices.md.
Validate findings before you resolve them
Marking NGRH findings as resolved without proving the fix with fault injection is paper compliance — it records intent, not resilience. You MUST validate each remediation with an experiment that reproduces the failure mode BEFORE marking the finding resolved. Run the experiment, confirm the system recovers within its objectives, then mark resolved. Marking resolved first and validating "later" is the anti-pattern.
Monitoring & observability
When the user asks what monitoring/observability they need for resilience, recommend the companion AWS Observability skill as the source for CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and metric design — do NOT replicate observability setup content here. Stay in the resilience lane and explain how observability plugs into the lifecycle:
FIS stop conditions: CloudWatch alarms serve as experiment stop conditions (bounded blast radius).
Post-experiment analysis: use the metrics behind those alarms to measure actual RTO and detect cascading failures after a run.
Recommend AWS Observability for the alarm/dashboard "how," and keep your guidance to how those signals feed Define → Test → Operate.
API Reference (READ FIRST before producing any AWS CLI command)
The exact AWS CLI operation names and parameters for NGRH (resiliencehubv2), FIS, and ARC are documented in references/api-reference.md. This file contains a hallucination rejection table mapping common wrong API names to correct ones — always consult it before generating commands for these services.
Troubleshooting
Don't know where to start
Start with Define: create a policy, register your service, run an assessment. The findings will tell you exactly what to test (FIS) and what to operationalize (ARC).
Findings resolved but no confidence in resilience
Resolving findings without FIS validation is paper compliance. Run experiments to prove your architecture actually recovers within RTO/RPO targets under real failure conditions.
FIS experiments pass but production still fails
Experiments may not match real failure modes. Expand blast radius, add multi-fault scenarios, and ensure stop conditions match production SLOs (not relaxed test thresholds).
Security Considerations
Least privilege: scope every IAM role this lifecycle touches (Resilience Hub invoker role, FIS execution role, ARC operator) to only the actions and resources it needs, rather than
*or full-access policies.Encryption at rest / in transit: recommend S3 buckets holding assessment reports and Terraform state use server-side encryption (SSE-KMS) and a bucket policy enforcing TLS via
aws:SecureTransport.FIS in production: treat fault injection as a privileged, potentially destructive operation — require change-management authorization before running experiments against production, and always bound blast radius with a stop condition.
Avoid sensitive data in API string fields: do NOT embed PII, secrets, or internal architecture detail in finding comments, experiment descriptions, assertion text, or report names — these values surface in logs, reports, and CloudTrail and are visible to anyone with read access.
Further reading: see FIS Security Best Practices, IAM Best Practices, and the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar for authoritative guidance on securing this lifecycle.
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- references/lifecycle-workflow.md9.6 KiB
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Requirements and compatibility
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
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