# ExperimentTemplateAction
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Describes an action for an experiment template.

## Contents
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 ** actionId **   <a name="fis-Type-ExperimentTemplateAction-actionId"></a>
The ID of the action.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.  
Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Required: No

 ** description **   <a name="fis-Type-ExperimentTemplateAction-description"></a>
A description for the action.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.  
Pattern: `[\s\S]+`   
Required: No

 ** parameters **   <a name="fis-Type-ExperimentTemplateAction-parameters"></a>
The parameters for the action.  
Type: String to string map  
Key Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.  
Key Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1024.  
Value Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Required: No

 ** startAfter **   <a name="fis-Type-ExperimentTemplateAction-startAfter"></a>
The name of the action that must be completed before the current action starts.  
Type: Array of strings  
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.  
Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Required: No

 ** targets **   <a name="fis-Type-ExperimentTemplateAction-targets"></a>
The targets for the action.  
Type: String to string map  
Key Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.  
Key Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.  
Value Pattern: `[\S]+`   
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/fis-2020-12-01/ExperimentTemplateAction) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/fis-2020-12-01/ExperimentTemplateAction) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/fis-2020-12-01/ExperimentTemplateAction) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Fault Injection Service. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query fis` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).