FEATURED   RedLine Named Amazon AWS Technology Partner RedLine recently completed the requirements to qualify as an AWS Technology Partner. Amazon provides a rich cloud infrastructure that enables us to scale both of our offerings (Load Testing and Zip Code API). We also use their IAM capabilities to automatically deploy powerful and inexpensive Spot Instances in a customer’s AWS account securely. Read more… WHAT’S NEW   Red Hat OpenShift Load Testing RedLine recently worked with Red HatRead More →

When you first start a test, there is an initial wait time for RedLine to provision the Spot Instances in your AWS account. Then we have to load the tests scripts and get things synced. This only happens the first time you are starting up those spot instances.  As long as you keep using them, you will not have the wait time. Of course if you run your tests and then let the spot instances die,Read More →

RedLine has recently passed the stringent conditions for the Amazon AWS partner Program.  You can see our listing at http://www.aws-partner-directory.com/PartnerDirectory/PartnerDetail?Name=RedLine13. All RedLine services run on Amazon.  Additionally the RedLine Load Testing service is designed to efficiently start and stop Spot Instances on a customer’s own AWS account with no upcharge.Read More →

There are three levels of load testing that you can do against your application. Note that when we set up spot instances to be the load agents in your Amazon account, those instances are rented for an hour at a time.  This gives you plenty of time to test increasing loads with various settings on your application deployment to find the optimal level of service you need to deploy for your application.  Below are the threeRead More →

We’ve had a couple of beta testers say they do not have an AWS account on Amazon.  We were kind of surprised! If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can sign up for one easily at http://aws.amazon.com/.  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 wouldRead More →