AWS Amarathon 2025 Recap

Architecting for Efficiency and Reliability with Performance Testing at Scale

Recap Series

Session Notes

Testing Categories:

  • Code Testing: Code Analysis, Unit Testing
  • Integration & Interface: Contract Testing, Interface Testing
  • Functional: User Acceptance, Regression Testing
  • Non-Functional: Performance Testing, Chaos Engineering
  • End-to-end Testing: Comprehensive testing covering all aspects Performance Metrics:
  • Load: System performance under expected usage
  • Stress: Evaluate system behavior under extreme load conditions
  • Endurance: Sustained load testing to identify long-term issues
  • Scalability: Measuring performance under growing user/transaction volume
  • Spike: Rapidly increasing or decreasing load to assess resilience and behavior
  • Volume: Evaluates the impact of handling large amounts of data Measurement Criteria:
  • Percentiles: 50th, 90th, 95th, 99th, 99.9th, 100th
  • Counts & Averages: Total Transactions, Success, Failures, Response Times, Latency, Connection Time, Bandwidth
  • Errors: All errors, prioritize critical
  • Resources: CPU usage, Memory consumption, Disk I/O, Network Traffic Testing Strategies:
  • Early: Incorporate testing early in the development lifecycle
  • After: Testing post-infrastructure changes
  • Always: Continuous testing throughout the development process
  • Development: Testing integrated into the development workflow
  • Infrastructure Changes: Testing following any infrastructure modifications
  • Staging: Testing in a staging environment before production
  • Major Events: Testing prior to significant system events
  • Post-Production: Post-deployment performance validation
  • Milestones: Testing at specific project milestones Benefits:
  • Efficiency: Improved system efficiency
  • Reliability: Enhanced system reliability
  • Better User Experience: Superior user experience through optimized performance
  • Scalability: Improved system scalability
  • Cost Optimization: Reduced costs through optimized resource utilization Amazon Web Services Solutions:
  • 1M+ Deployments: Extensive deployment experience
  • Vetted, Supported: Thoroughly vetted and professionally supported solutions
  • Solutions Library: Comprehensive library of vetted solutions
  • Pay for what you use: Flexible pricing model based on usage
  • Single Tenant: Solutions designed for single tenant environments
  • 100% Open Source: Commitment to open source solutions