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Stress Testing In AWS Linux EC2 Instances

Steps

1. Launch a Linux EC2 instance
2. Install stress utility
3. Perform stress testing
4. Output

Launch A Linux EC2 Instance

Install Stress Utility

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install stress -y

Perform Stress Testing

sudo stress --cpu  70 --timeout 20

Output