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AWS fis documentation change

Service: fis · 2025-09-19 · Documentation low

File: fis/latest/userguide/fis-actions-reference.md

Summary

Added documentation for new EBS volume I/O latency injection actions in AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Security assessment

Documents new fault injection capabilities for testing resilience. While these actions could impact system availability, the documentation update itself does not address a security vulnerability or describe security features.

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diff --git a/fis/latest/userguide/fis-actions-reference.md b/fis/latest/userguide/fis-actions-reference.md
index b758f6494..d172cc85c 100644
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@@ -416,0 +417,9 @@ AWS FIS supports the following Amazon EBS action.
+###### Actions
+
+  * aws:ebs:pause-volume-io
+
+  * aws:ebs:volume-io-latency
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@@ -447,0 +457,39 @@ To initiate the experiment using the Amazon EC2 console, see [Fault testing on A
+### aws:ebs:volume-io-latency
+
+Injects latency on I/O operations of target EBS volumes. The target volumes must be in the same Availability Zone and must be attached to [Nitro-based instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/instancetypes/ec2-nitro-instances.html). The volumes cannot be attached to instances in an Outpost.
+
+To initiate the experiment using the Amazon EC2 console, see [ Fault testing on Amazon EBS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-fis.html) in the _Amazon EBS User Guide_.
+
+###### Resource type
+
+  * **aws:ec2:ebs-volume**
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+###### Parameters
+
+  * **readIOPercentage** – The percentage of read I/O operations that latency will be injected on, from 0.1% to 100.%. This is the percentage of all read I/O operations on the volume that will be impacted during the experiment. The default is 100.
+
+  * **readLatencyMilliseconds** – The amount of latency injected on read I/O operations in milliseconds, from 1ms (io2 volumes) or 10ms (non-io2 volumes) to 60 seconds. This is the latency value that will be observed on the specified percentage of the read I/O during the experiment. The default is 100.
+
+  * **writeIOPercentage** – The percentage of write I/O operations that latency will be injected on, from 0.1% to 100.%. This is the percentage of all write I/O operations on the volume that will be impacted during the experiment. The default is 100.
+
+  * **writeLatencyMilliseconds** – The amount of latency injected on write I/O operations in milliseconds, from 1ms (io2 volumes) or 10ms (non-io2 volumes) to 60 seconds. This is the latency value that will be observed on the specificed percentage of the read I/O during the experiment. The default is 100.
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+  * **duration** – The duration for which the latency will be injected, from 1 second to 12 hours.
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+
+###### Permissions
+
+  * `ec2:DescribeVolumes`
+
+  * `ec2:InjectVolumeIOLatency`
+
+  * `tag:GetResources`
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