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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, showing how your applications will behave under different load conditions and identifying potential performance issues throughout your applications' lifecycle (including development, staging, production, and post-production). This AWS Solution simulates users and transactions ranging from hundreds to millions, generating consistent transactions without the need for user or server provisioning.

The solution provides insights into crucial areas, such as the scalability and reliability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon E2) instances, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), the cold start and execution times of AWS Lambda functions, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database query performance, and Amazon CloudFront response times. By simulating realistic load scenarios, you can optimize your infrastructure for both performance and cost-efficiency.

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: 3.3.8

  • Released: 5/2025

  • 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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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