AWS

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

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: 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 testing that you mayRead More →

Stockholm AWS Region for Load Testing

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 →

Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing

AWS announced that the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and, Tokyo. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world. RedLine13 has added support forRead More →

Customers often ask: Which is the best AWS instance for load testing? It’s a great question. However it never has a direct answer:) As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, we’ve had a lot of experience with AWS. Here’s how we respond. 1 – First, it depends on what kind of testing framework you’re using, whether it’s JMeter, Gatling, Selenium or something else. For simple HTTP endpoint test or simple PHP/Python, start with T class. For otherRead More →

Amazon AWS tagging capability is powerful and yet little used in load testing. Redline13 has supported AWS instance tagging for years. RedLine13 has now increased the number of tags to give you more control and better load testing with AWS instance Tagging. We previously wrote about RedLine13 support for AWS Instance Tagging where you can create your own tags. But first, let’s talk about what tags are and how they can be used. Using Tags AWSRead More →

Most people don’t realize that there are unavailable AWS instance types in certain regions. In other words, every AWS region does not have every AWS instance type. RedLine13 is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. When you are ready to choose your AWS instance type in RedLine13, you will see ALL of the AWS instance types. But those that are unavailable in that region will be disabled so you can’t choose them. In this example you seeRead More →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) just introduced the next generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) burstable general-purpose instances, T3. Amazon says that “T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are designed to provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline when needed.” See the AWS announcement for details. RedLine13 supports T3 instances for all RedLine13 pricing levels. In addition, RedLine13 is announcing support for R5Read More →

Pro Tip - Expert Terrain

In this example we will show how to extract AWS instances parameters using JSR223 Sampler on JMeter. In addition, you will learn how to run bash command scripts on remote linux servers using JMeter. This is a JMeter Pro Tip that can save you time.   In some cases it is necessary for the load test to send a linux command to  the remote linux server. For example, after completing a load test and before retesting again youRead More →

AWS EC2 Instance Types

Which AWS EC2 Instance Type Will Work Best for your Load Test? Before performing a load test, you need to determine the right AWS EC2 instance type. Instance types comprise various combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity and give you the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. In this blog post we will see how load testing with different AWS EC2 instance types can impact your load testing results, sometimesRead More →

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

RedLine13 is proud to announce that we have met the AWS requirements and are part of the AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Tier for Amazon load testing tools.  That includes being recognized as a SAAS Partner and also part of the AWS Marketplace. Which makes RedLine13 an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. Read about RedLine13’s open architecture. We provide an easy, accessible, and cheap means for load testing. Precisely tune and control your cloud load agents forRead More →