ec2

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 →

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 →

To provide finer grain control over what instances RedLine13 can start, stop, terminate we have added support for launching EC2 load agents with instance profiles. Advanced Topic This is an advanced topic and only supported for premium customers. You can read the AWS Blog Post on Restricting with IAM Policy and instance-profiles. To get started you must set up an instance profile, which is documented at “How to create IAM instance Profile“. Setting up Policy To use this featureRead More →

redline13-new-load-agent-location-manager-and-improved-spot-instance-prices

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 →

On December 13th, Amazon added new European servers located in London that will be offered to their AWS users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for these new servers in London (eu-west-2), meaning you can now cloud load test in 14 different AWS server locations throughout the world. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: London (eu-west-2) Canada (ca-central-1) Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt,Read More →

redline13-aws-canada

On December 8th, Amazon added new servers in Canada that will be offered to their AWS users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for the Canadian servers (ca-central-1), giving you even more flexibility when it comes to scaling load tests in the cloud. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Canada (ca-central-1) Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1) Sao Paolo,Read More →

EC2 Update

We’ve recently added EC2 region support for Ohio, and RedLine13 users now have access to even more servers on the East Coast of the United States. Amazon added the new server locations in Ohio in 2016, offering users more flexibility when it comes to EC2 instances. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1) Sao Paolo, Brazil (sa-east-1)Read More →

AWS Update

A user recently reached out to us and asked: We have some feedback regarding the ability to shutdown any instance in AWS. We perceive the “Show All Servers” with the ability to shut them down as a dangerous option. People who normally do not have access to terminate EC2 instances all of the sudden gain those privileges once they are given access to RedLine13. Someone could by mistake terminate an important instance. It is possible to removeRead More →