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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by siscia on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:19PM (#10975293)
The idea is interesting, but I wonder how this isn't very expensive to run...
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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by jcxplorer on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:48PM (#10975481)
A test that would use 100 lambda functions in parallel from each of the 4 regions and run for 5 minutes would cost about 3 USD. That should achieve a concurrency level of 100,000. That would be the most expensive test possible at the moment. Smaller tests are basically free.
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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by djb_hackernews on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:02PM (#10975600)
Not to rain on anyone's parade but you could generate A LOT more load using regular old EC2 instances if all you had was $3...
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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by inyourtenement on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:22PM (#10975730)
Lambdas might be easier to launch and coordinate.
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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by siscia on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:56PM (#10975542)
Actually not that bad... Great.

Why it is limited to 100,000 concurrent request ?

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Re:Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool by zwily on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:12PM (#10975655)
The default Lambda limit is 100 concurrently running Lambdas. AWS will raise this if you ask, I believe.
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