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Distributed Load Testing on AWS

Automate software application testing at scale and at load to identify potential performance issues

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Overview

Distributed Load Testing on AWS automates performance testing at scale, demonstrating how applications behave under various load conditions and helping identify potential performance issues throughout the application lifecycle. This solution simulates user transactions ranging from hundreds to millions without the need for user or server provisioning, providing insights into crucial areas such as the scalability and reliability of your Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda function performance, Amazon RDS database query performance, and Amazon CloudFront response times.

The solution supports testing scripts developed on industry-standard load testing frameworks including JMeter, K6, or Locust, allowing teams to leverage existing test assets or create new ones using their preferred option. By simulating realistic load scenarios, users can optimize their infrastructure for both performance and cost-efficiency, enabling comprehensive performance evaluation across diverse application architectures while maintaining consistency in testing methodology.

Benefits

How it works

You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template for AWS Regions.

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About this deployment

  • Version: 3.4.1

  • Released: 8/2025

  • Author: AWS

  • Est. deployment time: 15 mins

  • Estimated cost: See details

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Ready to deploy? Open the CloudFormation template in the AWS Console to begin setting up the infrastructure you need. You'll be prompted to access your AWS account if you haven't yet logged in.

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Customers

Calabrio

"At Calabrio, our mission is to help contact centers work smarter, faster and better. We needed to design a new, high-performing feature for a major customer -- fast. We used Distributed Load Testing on AWS to test our system’s performance at scale, without the need for costly enterprise testing licenses or writing custom orchestration code for open-source tools. With this AWS Solution, we designed and executed tests at six times the expected traffic volume and launched the new feature successfully and ahead of schedule."

Daryl Robbins, Senior Director, Engineering

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MadeiraMadeira

"At MadeiraMadeira, ensuring the performance and scalability of our applications is essential, especially during high-traffic periods like Black Friday. With Distributed Load Testing on AWS, we are able to simulate complex large-scale scenarios and accelerate our non-functional validations. This AWS Solution removed technical barriers and helped us build greater confidence in our releases while keeping customer experience a top priority."

Michel Augusto, Quality Assurance Specialist

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Arthurite Integrated

"Our team at Arthurite Integrated deployed an AI-powered chatbot and needed to ensure it could handle high-traffic volumes from millions of users, especially during peak periods. Traditional manual testing couldn't simulate the real-world usage patterns we expected, so we used Distributed Load Testing on AWS to validate the system's scalability, latency and fault tolerance under realistic workloads. With this AWS Solution we identified latency bottlenecks, leading to optimizations that improved our response time by 60%. Our error rates dropped by 45% and the system's throughput scaled 5x times higher under load. Auto-scaling also became 3x more responsive, ensuring a seamless user experience even during usage spikes."

Somtochukwu Ezepue, Founder/CEO

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