This page describes load testing requirements for the Cloud Platform infrastructure for different subscription types.
Cloud Platform Professional applications rely on a shared load balancing infrastructure that is used by other customers. Dedicated load balancers are unavailable on such platforms. Therefore, Acquia does not permit unlimited volume of load or stress testing on Cloud Platform Professional in any production or non-production environment. By putting a limit on the volume, Acquia can ensure that other customers’ applications are not impacted by any other application’s development efforts.
If you are on Cloud Platform Professional and require load testing for your application, contact your Acquia account manager to discuss about upgrading your subscription.
If you are a Cloud Platform Enterprise customer with shared load balancers in front of your production environment, Acquia offers the following options that can enable you to perform load testing, assuming your production environment is not yet live:
You can perform load tests on your Cloud Platform Enterprise production environment only if you choose one of these options. This is necessary to ensure that other customers’ live production applications are not impacted by another application’s load testing. Acquia does not permit load tests on any non-production environments on shared staging infrastructure.
If you are a Cloud Platform Enterprise customer with dedicated load balancers in front of any environment, you can perform an application stress test at any time. However, you must first create a Support ticket and get an acknowledgment on the ticket from Acquia Support. With this advance notice, Acquia can notify all the technicians about your load test. This prevents Acquia from blocking that traffic as the traffic would otherwise look suspicious without the customer notification.
When you submit this request to Acquia Support, include the date, time, and time zone of the planned test, and also indicate whether the traffic will be anonymous or authenticated.
If your application is not yet live, you can run a load test on your production environment. After your application is live, use a dedicated load testing environment that duplicates your production environment, so that you get the most accurate results on a non-production environment.
The bandwidth on the load balancer maxes out at around 50 Mbps. This is the cap on data for tests that primarily hit several pages with anonymous traffic. If you need more bandwidth, you can use an elastic load balancer, which routes traffic to the available load balancers in a round-robin manner and multiplies the available bandwidth. This differs from the normal configuration where the secondary balancer idles awaiting the failure of the primary.
For applications running on Cloud Next, the options noted earlier for Cloud Platform Enterprise applications apply. However, Cloud Next does not yet support the provisioning of dedicated load test environments that are added to your existing application.
As an alternative, until dedicated load test environments are supported on Cloud Next, Acquia provisions a new temporary application with only a production environment for you to test on for the desired period. To utilize this environment, you must replicate your code, database, files, and PHP settings over the test application. That application can be used for load testing without the risk of the test impacting your production environment. To get pricing information, contact your Acquia account manager.
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This page describes load testing requirements for the Cloud Platform infrastructure for different subscription types.
Cloud Platform Professional applications rely on a shared load balancing infrastructure that is used by other customers. Dedicated load balancers are unavailable on such platforms. Therefore, Acquia does not permit unlimited volume of load or stress testing on Cloud Platform Professional in any production or non-production environment. By putting a limit on the volume, Acquia can ensure that other customers’ applications are not impacted by any other application’s development efforts.
If you are on Cloud Platform Professional and require load testing for your application, contact your Acquia account manager to discuss about upgrading your subscription.
If you are a Cloud Platform Enterprise customer with shared load balancers in front of your production environment, Acquia offers the following options that can enable you to perform load testing, assuming your production environment is not yet live:
You can perform load tests on your Cloud Platform Enterprise production environment only if you choose one of these options. This is necessary to ensure that other customers’ live production applications are not impacted by another application’s load testing. Acquia does not permit load tests on any non-production environments on shared staging infrastructure.
If you are a Cloud Platform Enterprise customer with dedicated load balancers in front of any environment, you can perform an application stress test at any time. However, you must first create a Support ticket and get an acknowledgment on the ticket from Acquia Support. With this advance notice, Acquia can notify all the technicians about your load test. This prevents Acquia from blocking that traffic as the traffic would otherwise look suspicious without the customer notification.
When you submit this request to Acquia Support, include the date, time, and time zone of the planned test, and also indicate whether the traffic will be anonymous or authenticated.
If your application is not yet live, you can run a load test on your production environment. After your application is live, use a dedicated load testing environment that duplicates your production environment, so that you get the most accurate results on a non-production environment.
The bandwidth on the load balancer maxes out at around 50 Mbps. This is the cap on data for tests that primarily hit several pages with anonymous traffic. If you need more bandwidth, you can use an elastic load balancer, which routes traffic to the available load balancers in a round-robin manner and multiplies the available bandwidth. This differs from the normal configuration where the secondary balancer idles awaiting the failure of the primary.
For applications running on Cloud Next, the options noted earlier for Cloud Platform Enterprise applications apply. However, Cloud Next does not yet support the provisioning of dedicated load test environments that are added to your existing application.
As an alternative, until dedicated load test environments are supported on Cloud Next, Acquia provisions a new temporary application with only a production environment for you to test on for the desired period. To utilize this environment, you must replicate your code, database, files, and PHP settings over the test application. That application can be used for load testing without the risk of the test impacting your production environment. To get pricing information, contact your Acquia account manager.
If this content did not answer your questions, try searching or contacting our support team for further assistance.
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