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How to Test Failover Without Taking Production Down: Game Days, Chaos Experiments, and a Region-Failure Drill

Test failover safely by climbing a ladder from tabletop exercises and staging tests to small, reversible production experiments with a limited blast radius, explicit abort conditions, and a rollback…

  • Begin with tabletop exercises to validate runbooks and decision-making
  • Progress to staging tests with production-like data volumes
  • Conduct full region evacuation drills as final step in testing ladder

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