Connecting an AWS VPC to the World

By design, resources in AWS are provisioned through the lens of security. When creating a new Virtual Private Network (VPC), access into this network from the outside world is restricted. In this article, we will go through the steps connecting a VPC to the internet. We will also review common connectivity issues faced reaching resources inside a VPC. Attaching an Internet Gateway The first step to enable VPC internet access is to attach an Internet Gateway.Read More →

Extracting Metadata from Load Generator Instances

RedLine13 load generator instances are backed by AWS EC2 instances. AWS exposes a special locally-addressable endpoint that returns metadata about that instance. Using this, you can ascertain such things as the region in which your instance resides, private and public addresses, and instance tags amongst other useful data points. A specific example of where this would be useful is where you have defined a load test to run in multiple regions, with a number of EC2-backedRead More →

Load Tests from Hyderabad

AWS announced that they have created new AWS Regions in Hyderabad, Jakarta and Melbourne. So RedLine13 is announcing that you can now run RedLine13 load tests in Hyderabad, Jakarta and Melbourne. See the RedLine13 Release Notes. These regions join other AWS Regions in Asia, including Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Seoul. Read more about AWS in Hyderabad: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-the-30th-aws-region-asia-pacific-hyderabad-region-in-india/. Configure AWS and RedLine13 Enable the regions in AWS for which regions your account can use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-regions.html. In RedLine13 goRead More →

Load Tests from Hyderabad

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 →

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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 →

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 →

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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 →