FAILSIM Incident response simulation platform — interactive war room demo
P1 AWS eu-west-1 failure
00:23:14 elapsed Session #91
Bridge participants
YO
You
Incident Manager
S
Sarah (AI)
IM Support
E
Emma (AI)
Comms Lead
A
Aoife (AI)
SRE Lead
C
Conor (AI)
Change Manager
N
Niamh (AI)
Problem Manager
Service owners
D
Declan (AI)
Service Owner
F
Fiona (AI)
Head of Platform
All
AI
Actions
System
00:00
System — Incident opened. Scenario: AWS eu-west-1 region failure. Services affected: checkout, auth, media-cdn.
00:01
Sarah — Bridge is now open. All teams please confirm attendance. Severity is P1. We are running ITIL Major Incident protocol.
00:02
Emma — Paging SRE Lead, Problem Manager, and Change Manager. Stakeholder notification going out now to C-suite.
00:04
Niamh — Problem Manager on bridge. Logs show eu-west-1 AZ degradation starting 00:00 UTC. Likely EC2 capacity event. Opening Problem Record PR-0041.
00:07
You — Approved failover to eu-central-1. SRE team to proceed with Route 53 weight shift.action taken
00:09
Conor — EBF-0091 raised for Route 53 weight shift. Awaiting IM approval before proceeding.
00:11
You — EBF-0091 approved.approved
00:13
Aoife — Route 53 weight shift to eu-central-1 complete. Monitoring error rates. Checkout latency still elevated at 4.2s p99.
00:18
System — SLA breach: Time-to-workaround exceeded 15-min threshold.SLA breach
00:21
Emma — Second stakeholder update sent. Estimated resolution window communicated as 30 mins.
00:23
Aoife — Error rates dropping. p99 now 1.8s. eu-central-1 handling full traffic load. Recommend holding 5 mins before declaring workaround in place.
Team score
62
/ 100 — live score
SLA breach −15 pts
Metrics
Response time4 min 12s
Time to workaround23m 14s
SLA breaches1
EBF compliance100%
Comms sent2
SLA targets
TTW (15 min)BREACHED
TTR (60 min)39% used
AI advisor
✨ Suggested action
Declare workaround in place once Aoife confirms stability. Raise ECR-0091 for permanent fix before next business day.
⚠ Next scenario
Redis OOM likely given cross-region traffic spike — cache miss storm incoming.