People often ask what it will cost to run a large load test with RedLine13 on AWS, especially for large JMeter tests. We have lots of articles explaining how the AWS costs are determined. But some people have asked to see AWS costs for large JMeter load tests with real results from real customers. We think that listening to our customers is a good idea. So here they are. We’ve included test summaries from five differentRead More →

Estimating AWS Costs for Load Tests

Estimating your AWS costs for load tests is an essential fact of life provided you have any sort of budget.  If you’ve run any number of load tests with us before, you may have come to appreciate the “Data & Server Cost” box on your load test summary metrics. The green box does a reasonable job of approximating your projected AWS spend for your test, with a few caveats we will discuss.Read More →

AWS and continuous load testing costs

We always talk about how inexpensive it is to load test with RedLine13 and AWS. Still, users are concerned and ask us what AWS will cost them. So here’s a real customer who runs high volume testing, what’s referred to as Continuous Load Testing. Let’s see how much their AWS Continuous Load Testing costs are. Jay Holland is the Director of QA and DevOps at Precision Sample, LLC, a market research company leading the way amongRead More →

Amazon AWS tagging capability is powerful and yet little used in load testing. Redline13 has supported AWS instance tagging for years.  These tags can be set globally for all load tests under the account settings page, and also individually for each server though our API.  RedLine13 has now increased the number of tags to give you more control and better load testing with AWS instance Tagging. At the end we’ve included how two customers are usingRead More →

We often talk about the very low AWS costs. We are usually referring to the AWS instances that run the load tests. There is another AWS cost that you should be aware of and that is the AWS data costs. It’s usually very low also as you can see here in this AWS post. But depending on your test, you may need to keep an eye on it. So this post will talk about AWS dataRead 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 →

QualiTlabs Case Study: Cost-Effective Performance Testing for a Healthcare Mobile App

QualiTlabs is an independent software testing services company who conducted a case study using RedLine13 and JMeter to carry out large-scale performance testing. RedLine13 integrates seamlessly with AWS, which allowed QualiTlabs to scale the tests in the cloud while ensuring cost-efficiency. This facilitated simulation of thousands of concurrent users in a flexible, secure, and scalable environment, minimizing the need for additional infrastructure. Through integration of RedLine13 with AWS and the use of JMeter, QualiTlabs was ableRead More →

Cost-effective cloud load testing

RedLine13 is a fully managed platform that integrates with seamlessly with AWS to provide cost-effective cloud load testing as a service. Being fully managed means that the configuration, startup, data collection, and termination is handled automatically with no coding or scripting required. This means you can scale to any level simply by specifying the quantity of servers you wish to run, to nearly limitless capacity with minimal effort. RedLine13 Cloud Architecture RedLine13 is a platform forRead More →

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

Many companies are struggling with the need for comprehensive load testing, the cost of load testing and limited budgets. This post will tell you about something you may not have considered: Load Testing with AWS Spot vs On-Demand Instances. To begin with, RedLine13 understands the high cost of load testing. If you don’t know the RedLine13 story, that’s what led us to create RedLine13 for our own testing. There are many different types of load testingRead More →