In this article we will talk through setting up a simple load testing scenario for Drupal applications using Amazon’s Elastic Cloud computing. Amazon EC2 will enable you to easily set up testing scenarios for a relatively low cost, e.g. you can find out what the effect of adding an additional database server will make without actually buying one! JMeter will allow us to create complex test plans to measure the effect of our optimisations, we'll set up a remote JMeter load generator on EC2 that we'll control from our desktop.

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