If you are doing large scale load testing, you may run up against EC2 limits or other “service quotas” on your AWS account. In this case, you will need a one-time Amazon approval for running your large tests. Read More →
There are certain situations where you may need to include files above file size and count limits of your RedLine13 subscription. In this brief guide, we will walk you through how to upload data files above this limit by hosting extra files in AWS S3.Read More →
Given current trends, odds are your next performance testing project will span multiple cloud providers. RedLine13 makes perfect sense as a framework for testing across these environments.Read More →
Estimating your AWS costs for load tests is an essential fact of life provided you have any sort of budget. If you’ve run any number of load tests with us before, you may have come to appreciate the “Data & Server Cost” box on your load test summary metrics. The green box does a reasonable job of approximating your projected AWS spend for your test, with a few caveats we will discuss.Read More →
In this blog post, we will be guiding you through this one-time process of integrating AWS with your RedLine13 account.Read More →
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of EC2 C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. Redline13 supports EC2 C5n instances for load tests which require high network usage load tests. Now when you’re selecting your AWS server you can choose a C5n instance. Even though AWS provides this extremely high network bandwidth, the cost is still low. RedLine13 gives you the power and control to choose a C5n instance. What otherRead More →
We often talk about the very low AWS costs. We are usually referring to the AWS instances that run the load tests. There is another AWS cost that you should be aware of and that is the AWS data costs. It’s usually very low also as you can see here in this AWS post. But depending on your test, you may need to keep an eye on it. So this post will talk about AWS dataRead More →
We often get messages asking how many vCPUs needed for load testing. For example: I want to do a load test with 500k users. I’m trying to decide how many vCPUs I would need for this, and therefore which plan to go for with Redline13. Please could you advise me on how many users you’d recommend per vCPU. For some background, AWS talks about Optimizing CPU Options. Most test usage for vCPUs is dependent on yourRead More →
Many companies are struggling with the need for comprehensive load testing, the cost of load testing and limited budgets. This post will tell you about something you may not have considered: Load Testing with AWS Spot vs On-Demand Instances. To begin with, RedLine13 understands the high cost of load testing. If you don’t know the RedLine13 story, that’s what led us to create RedLine13 for our own testing. There are many different types of load testingRead More →
AWS announced that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Stockholm AWS Region for Load Testing. The Stockholm Region joins Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris as the fifth AWS Region in Europe, and the 20th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers 60 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in overRead More →
