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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 →

Visual Studio Load Testing removed

Microsoft recommends using alternate load testing tools now that VS2019 is the last version with Visual Studio Load Testing capabilities. Visual Studio users are welcome on RedLine13, partnering with Amazon AWS. This could be the best alternative load testing tool for many users. Take all of the time you need and run your own test on RedLine13. It’s staying put.Read 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 →

SmartBear Pricing is like Expensive Cars

Congratulations SmartBear on releasing LoadNinja, a cloud-based load testing solution. SmartBear pricing is still too expensive for most businesses. Scalability is important, as well as ease of use. But if businesses can’t afford it, then that’s not smart. The cheapest price level is $1,799 for a year and it’s full of limits: 1,000 virtual users, 100 load testing hours and 1 hour Maximum Test. The limitations are still there at $2,999 and $5,999 per year. RedLine13Read More →

On December 18th, Amazon added new European servers located in Paris. These will be offered to AWS EC2 users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for these new servers in Paris (eu-west-3). So now you can cloud load test in 15 different AWS server locations throughout the world. Run Your Load Tests in Any AWS EC2 Region With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Paris (eu-west-3) London (eu-west-2) CanadaRead More →

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Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →

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Load Agent Location Manager With our update, you can now control exactly which load agent locations you want to see and use. For example, if you only test on Virginian servers, it’d be best to only activate that load agent location, thus increasing your page’s reload time. You can also control the default subnet and security groups for all load agents: If you want to get started with the load agent location manager, begin by loggingRead More →