EC2 IAM Instance Profile is the AWS way of giving limited access to EC2 instances to other AWS Resources. We document the benefit of this and how to use it within RedLine13 Load agents here. This document is a how-to for creating the EC2 IAM Instance Profile in AWS Console connecting EC2 to an S3 bucket. Step 1. Go to AWS IAM, Create Role AWS IAM Console Create Role Select AWS Service Choose Use Case ->Read More →
The load agents which are spun in your AWS environment have no access to other AWS resources, by default they only have access to standard protocols limited to the VPC environment in which they are launched. Short version – your load agents are limited to making HTTP(s) requests to services. We will walk through attaching an AWS Instance Profile to a load agent. There are times you might want your load agents to access other AWSRead More →
In many test scenarios, you will want to load test internal applications running on your cloud or in your own data center. Here is a guide on picking a path based on your deployment. Our load agents run inside your AWS environment. So if you have a tunnel or traffic management place already you might not have to do anything. If your applications are running on AWS but perhaps in a different vpc, region, or accountRead More →
RedLine13 was built for JMeter Cloud Load Testing. That gives you several advantages. This allows you to scale your JMeter tests to any size. It works with Apache JMeter and other open source platforms and plugins. And you can easily make testing part of your CI/CD environment with Jenkins and other platforms. Background Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running and maintaining the hardware needed for performance tests wereRead More →
Setting Up an Amazon AWS Account If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can sign up for one easily at http://aws.amazon.com/. Then you can get started using AWS for load testing with RedLine13. Signing up is free and you will only pay for the services that are used. As an example, if you do a load test of 50,000 users for an hour the approximate cost is $2.00 and would be charged toRead More →
We always talk about how inexpensive it is to load test with RedLine13 and AWS. Still, users are concerned and ask us what AWS will cost them. So here’s a real customer who runs high volume testing, what’s referred to as Continuous Load Testing. Let’s see how much their AWS Continuous Load Testing costs are. Jay Holland is the Director of QA and DevOps at Precision Sample, LLC, a market research company leading the way amongRead 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 →
Here are some questions we’ve received on a common topic: how to whitelist IP addresses for load testing. Q: We are using the Redline13 Basic Subscription for load testing and would like to know the Public IP’s that we need to whitelist for the test to be successful. A: It sounds like your application is behind a whitelist and you need the load agents to be able to connect to it. The simplest way is toRead 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 →
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 →
