Life & fun · December 30, 2012
Beeswithmachineguns, lets you use EC2 to DDOS yourself
A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications). - newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
Beeswithmachineguns, lets you use EC2 to DDOS yourself launched on December 30, 2012 with 44 votes, #49 of 501 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.
In plain words
Beeswithmachineguns is a load testing utility that creates multiple Amazon EC2 instances to generate high volumes of traffic against web applications. Developers and QA teams use it to stress-test their own systems and identify performance bottlenecks. The tool automates the process of spinning up instances, directing them to target a specified application, and then terminating them when testing is complete, making it a practical alternative to manual load testing infrastructure.
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