8 months ago

Load testing is a foundational pillar of building resilient applications. Load testing applications in automated CI/CD pipelines provides the following benefits: Early and automated feedback on performance thresholds based on clearly defined benchmarks.

We load test the application using AWS Distributed Load Testing Solution in the development environment.

For the purposes of this blog, we deploy the CI/CD pipeline, the RESTful application and the AWS Distributed Load Testing solution into the same AWS account.

In the post above, we demonstrated how to automatically load test your applications in a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS Distributed Load Testing solution.