When launching a performance test using your AWS account you can tag the AWS instances.  Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. Tagging helps customers with reporting and searching in their AWS dashboard for RedLine13 usage. For reference, this is how AWS Tagging works: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html DefaultTagging Tagging can be configured on the account level and defaulted to ON if needed. Account -> Your Settings Add Custom Key / Custom Value Check if you wantRead More →

We have added support for Seoul Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling all 10 AWS regions. Region Name Region US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 US West (N. California) us-west-1 US West (Oregon) us-west-2 EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1 Selected Advanced Cloud Options Drop down Location Select “Asia Pacific (Seoul)” Run your tests. Not all instances sizes andRead More →

In many test scenarios, you want to hit an internal application running on a private AWS subnet. The application access is managed by an internal ELB with a distinct security group.   A quick way to enable RedLine13 and other load testing agents is to use a security group with only outbound access.  Then allow the Internal ELB to be accessed by servers in this security group.  These test agents will need a public IP, but youRead More →

AWS has made networking configuration many times simpler over managing your hardware. Anyone now has the power to create a network, but with such power comes a lot of mistakes.  One of the challenges comes with load testing internal applications hosted on AWS. This article is a general guide which could help anyone testing internal applications. In the end, we demonstrate launching a RedLine13 load test within AWS private subnet communicating externally through an NAT gateway. Note:Read More →

Through out Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent keynote speech he injects some laws that come from different industries.  Their reach has become impactful to technology and are worth a quick recap. Werner’s philosophical review of Laws and Application to Cloud #1 Lucas Critique “It is naive to try to predict the effects of a change entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data” The future is always changing and the data is growing, we will continue toRead More →

Condensed Summary New white paper – Well Architected Framework New Services Amazon Kinesis Analytics New instance types X1 (Haswell processors) and T2.nano Real world : Coursera and micro-services EC2 Container Registry (Store and Launch Instances From) AWS Lambda Update since last year Cloud Formation, Integrations, Java, Mobile , API Gateway VPC, 5 Minute, Scheduled, Custom Retry Logic Python support AWS Mobile Hub Real world : BMW AWS IoT and MQTT support Real world : John Deere – HowRead More →

As more instances types are required to be started in a VPC we are finding more users fail starting up their first load test because of security configuration.  Previously in the RedLine13 we had two issues when the instance never connects Previous Issues The instance loses knowledge of its shutdown information You would have to manually terminate The RedLine13 UI just sits with the “Waiting” screen Resolution for issues Instances that can not communicate back to redline13 are given aboutRead More →

Been following #AWS Reinvent and noticed the mention of AWS MarketPlace + HP Load Runner.  Turns out HP charges you more to run on your AWS, here is some basic analysis.   Public Pricing Community Edition – 50 virtual users Free. HP 150 – 150 Virtual Users 50$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP 300 – 300 Virtual Users 125$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP Load RunnerRead More →

We upgraded our usage of AWS library 3.5.*, it has been a while since we have updated.  While updating we have put together a few other AWS friendly updates AWS Cross Account Roles Cross account roles is the preferred AWS mechanism for granting access to service providers.  This was feedback provided direct from AWS folks and per docs SaaS products should leverage Cross Account Roles to perform actions on behalf of customers RedLine13 Docs on setting it upRead More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing In the previous (#6 How it Used To Work), I told a story of how we put our desktops, yes desktops, to work. However, in today’s world, there are many more options.   You can rent agents from other commercial load testing clouds or you could use your own cloud to generate the test load.  Each team can now have their own environment and the dependency friction gets removed. Stephen Sigwart (CTORead More →