For the past several months we (SOASTA) have been performing global load and performance tests by leveraging multiple cloud platforms (cross-cloud testing) to generate and simulate Web traffic originating from around the world. Up until last November we had been limited to using Amazon’s New Jersey locations. Now we have access to and can generate traffic (load) from 15 locations around the globe. For the several customers that have experienced it, the results have been amazing. While simulating global traffic is not all together new, using cloud computing makes it, for the first time, fast, scalable, and affordable. Tomorrow we will announce the availability of The First Cloud-Based Global Test Platform. This New Test Platform is NOW available to all corporations around the world for Global Load testing on there web applications.   Prices starts at $1,000/Test Hour.

One of our customers QTRAX recently ran a test that simulated several million users coming from London, Hong Kong, New York, and Los Angeles. It took less then 30 minutes to provision the entire test environment (hardware & software) at a cost of less than $3,000 to perform the test. Chris Roe, CTO of QTRAX, stated, “Our customer are located all around the world, and not just here in New York.  So we needed a test platform that could best simulate our every day traffic.  SOASTA pulling together multiple Cloud Platforms (cross-cloud testing)to deliver a very “elastic” test platform, was a perfect fit for testing our site.” Cloud Testing is changing how we test forever.

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