Architecture details
This section describes the components and AWS services that make up this solution and the architecture details on how these components work together.
The Distributed Load Testing on AWS solution consists of two high-level components: a front end and a backend.
AWS services in this solution
The following AWS services are included in this solution:
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Core. Hosts REST API endpoints in the solution. |
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Core. Manages deployments for the solution infrastructure. |
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Core. Serves the web content hosted in Amazon S3. |
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Core. Stores the solution logs and metrics. |
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Core. Handles user management and authentication for the API. |
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Core. Stores deployment information and tests scenario details and results. |
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Core. Deploys and manages independent Amazon ECS tasks on AWS Fargate containers. |
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Core. Hosts solution's Amazon ECS containers |
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Core. Handles user role and permissions management. |
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Core. Provides logic for APIs implementation, tests results parsing, and launching workers/leader tasks. |
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Core. Orchestrates the provisioning of Amazon ECS containers on AWS Fargate tasks in the specified regions |
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Supporting. Provides a web console powered by AWS Amplify |
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Supporting. Schedules tests to automatically begin at a specified date or on recurring dates. |
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Supporting. Hosts the container image in a public ECR repository. |
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Supporting. Enables viewing live data for a running test by subscribing to the corresponding topic in AWS IoT Core. |
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Supporting. Provides application-level resource monitoring and visualization of resource operations and cost data. |
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Supporting. Hosts the static web content, logs, metrics, and tests data. |
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Supporting. Contains the solution's Amazon ECS containers running on AWS Fargate. |
