Change EC2 Instance State

Attack

Reboot, terminate, stop or hibernate EC2 instances

Targets:

EC2-instances

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Change EC2 Instance State

Reboot, terminate, stop or hibernate EC2 instances

Attack

Targets:

EC2-instances

Install now

Change EC2 Instance State

Attack

Reboot, terminate, stop or hibernate EC2 instances

Targets:

EC2-instances

Install now

Change EC2 Instance State

Reboot, terminate, stop or hibernate EC2 instances

Attack

Targets:

EC2-instances

Install now

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Introduction

This action leverages AWS EC2 API to manipulate the state of EC2 instances. More specifically, it can reboot, stop, hibernate and terminate them.

Use Cases

Verify auto-scaling of a Kubernetes node group.
Understand how pods are shifted across different nodes within a Kubernetes cluster.
Verify that system services come up on system start.
Check that your monitoring solution informs you about this occurrence.

Rollback

Note that this attack does not support any rollback. The attack only transmits the API call, e.g., StopInstances or TerminateInstances.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
Action	How the EC2 instance state should be changed. Reboot, stop, hibernate, terminate.

Statistics

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EC2 restart doesn't result in user-visible errors

EC2 is part of the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, which acquires and releases resources depending on the traffic demand. Check whether your application is elastic as well by rebooting an EC2 instance.

EC2-instances

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