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Tips for Successfully Testing from the Cloud
With Load Tester 4, we’ve made it easy to harness Amazon’s power for Load Engines quickly and inexpensively. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the basics, here are a few rules of thumb:
1. Get to know the Amazon EC2 Console . The console will quickly tell you what instances you have running – and subsequently what you are getting billed for.
Note that the console shows you only data for a selected region, so you should check each region separately. Load Tester will automatically prompt you after a test and before shutting down Load Tester if you have running engines … Continue reading »
Load Testing from the Cloud
Over the last few weeks I’ve been tinkering with Amazon’s EC2 service, setting up a Load Tester load engine AMI and running tests from cloud instances. Our conclusion is that cloud engines can be useful, but there are some things you need to be careful about because they can cause subtle problems or even invalidate your test.
Getting Started
You’ll need to follow the Amazon instructions for getting set up on the service, as laid out in the Getting Started Guide. This is a somewhat non-trivial process that involves generating an X.509 certificate, and an SSH … Continue reading »
