US Patent 9753826 Providing fault injection to cloud-provisioned machines

Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing fault injection to Cloud-provisioned machines are provided herein. A method includes determining one or more fault conditions to be associated with a fault injection implementation based on one or more parameters associated with a request for the fault injection implementation; generating a specification for a lifecycle of the fault injection implementation based on the one or more fault conditions; and executing the fault injection implementation in a target system, wherein said executing comprises effecting the lifecycle of the fault injection implementation according to the generated specification.