Linux zone redundancy

What this Scenario does

This Scenario drops network traffic between your Linux hosts in one availability zone and the rest of your infrastructure, simulating a complete zone outage. This forces your load balancers and routing mechanisms to redirect traffic to Linux hosts in the remaining zones.

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Why run this Scenario?

• Demonstrate that your Linux infrastructure is truly zone-redundant, not just deployed across multiple zones.
• Verify that load balancers detect the zone outage and redirect traffic to healthy Linux hosts in other zones.
• Test whether your secondary zones have enough Linux host capacity to handle the traffic surge from the failed zone.
• Ensure that traffic returns to normal distribution when the zone comes back online.

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Expected outcome

When a zone fails, Linux hosts in secondary zones automatically absorb the traffic with no interruption in service.