Using the Amazon Cloud to Accelerate Testing

Virtualization technologies have been a great boon to test labs everywhere. With the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), these same benefits are available to everyone-without the need to purchase and maintain your own hardware. Once you master the tricks and tools of this new technology, you too can instantly have limitless capacity at your disposal. Randy Hayes demonstrates how to use the AWS Management Console to create virtual test machines (AMIs), use S3 storage services, handle elastic IP Addresses, and leverage these services for functional testing, load testing, defect tracking, and other common testing functions. Randy explains the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, which allows EC2 cloud instances to be configured to run inside your firewall to test inward-facing applications. Gain access to a pre-configured AMI with open source testing tools and other utilities for quickly migrating your test lab to EC2.