Live Testing on AWS

InfraSpec can run tests against real AWS APIs, allowing you to test your infrastructure code against a live AWS environment. This is useful for end-to-end validation in actual AWS environments or for testing production-like configurations.

Getting started

To get started, you need to have a valid AWS account and credentials. You can use the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables to configure your AWS credentials. For other configuration options, see the Configuring AWS Credentials page.

Cleaning Up

While InfraSpec attempts to clean up all resources after test execution including failures, unexpected errors or network interruptions may leave residual infrastructure. Running cloud-nuke  nightly in a dedicated test AWS account provides a reliable backstop for removing any orphaned resources.