How can I test multiple Web Role instances in Windows Azure?

Question

Background: I\'ve deployed an MVC3 application to 2 Azure Web Role instances, but I\'m confused as to how I can test out the possibility of one of these instances failing.

Answer 1

Steve Marx (aka smarx) developed a tool called WazMonkey. It is the azure counterpart of the tool Chaos Monkey developed by the netflix team to simulate broken instances in amazon AWS. WazMonkey terminates instances of a windows azure cloud service randomly to test the resilience of a cloud applications.