Understanding Load Testing

An advantage of deploying a solution to the cloud is increased time to market. It’s normally faster to spin up and deploy a solution in the cloud than adding the corresponding servers and software to a data center. Although cloud solutions are scalable in the fact that you can quickly deploy additional processing power, RAM, and storage, you should load test your solutions before deploying them to the cloud. This means your load test should simulate the potential number of user interactions you anticipate. By load testing in this in way, you can better configure your solution’s resources before you make the solution available to users.