Amazon has announced that accounts created after December, 2013 have an undetermined limit on the number of spot instances that can be created. “By default, you are limited to a total of 5 Spot Instance requests in a region. New AWS accounts might have lower limits.” This has created a lot of confusion with RedLine customers since new Amazon accounts seem to be set to a default mostly of 0. And existing customers that used toRead More →
We have updated the reports of servers to show the actual public IP address (in dotted form – not the dns name) in the list of running servers, for easy copying/pasting. This makes life a lot easier in whitelisting the test server IPs with your service providers before the load test begins. Our larger users had found it to be a bit of a mad dash to get all the IPs whitelisted before tests launch, especially whenRead More →
When you chose your Load Agent deployment options, we do a real time call to AWS to find the current pricing of Spot Instances. We up this a bit to create an estimated bid price. However, if you are deploying a large number of spot instances of one type in one region, you can actually bid up the price of what is available. In this example, the current bid price of an m3.2XLarge is $0.25 perRead More →
We recently expanded support across all AWS regions. This means you can run load agents from any mix or match of regions. If you are testing an app only available in Japan, then test from there. If you are deploying a worldwide app, then have load agents deployed in each region.Read More →
We have recently added the option to deploy spot instances in AWS Ireland for our European users. Note this gives you the flexibility to test out a worldwide load – so you can have load agents in Virginia, Oregon, California and Ireland now!Read 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 →
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 →