Open-source load testing on AWS Lambda. With built-in cost reporting
Hiya HN! tldr: Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit. It's cloud-native, i.e. you can scale out your test with AWS Lambda (other runtimes coming soon). There's no infra to set up or manage - you give Artillery an AWS account, and it takes care of the rest. We just released an update which includes cost reporting. Every time you run a load test, Artillery will show how much that cost in AWS Lambda fees. Blog post with a demo here: https://www.artillery.io/blog/this-load-test-cost-us-how-much The demo shows a distributed load test running in us-east-1 at 100k+…
Open-source load testing on AWS Lambda. With built-in cost reporting launched on November 9, 2022 with 12 votes, #1,214 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit that runs on AWS Lambda without requiring infrastructure setup or management. Users can scale distributed load tests by providing AWS account credentials, and the tool automatically handles execution. A built-in cost reporting feature displays AWS Lambda fees for each test run, helping teams understand testing expenses. The software is designed for developers and QA teams who need to perform load testing at scale with minimal overhead.
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Hiya HN! tldr: Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit. It's cloud-native, i.e. you can scale out your test with AWS Lambda (other runtimes coming soon). There's no infra to set up or manage - you give Artillery an AWS account, and it takes care of the rest. We just released an update which includes cost…
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