Reduce code duplication in load testing and synthetic monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article discusses how to use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for load testing and synthetic monitoring, reducing code duplication by reusing the same canary script for both purposes.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Creating a CloudWatch Synthetics canary to check the health of an HTTP endpoint
- Using AWS Step Functions to invoke the canary's Lambda function in parallel to simulate load testing
- Modifying the canary code to gather only relevant metrics and data for load testing
- Monitoring the load test metrics in CloudWatch
- Considerations for effective load testing, such as concurrency limits and cost optimization
- Troubleshooting tips and clean-up steps
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