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Stress Testing In AWS Linux EC2 Instances

In this article, we will perform stress testing in AWS Linux EC2 instances.

Steps

For this article, we will work on the following steps: -

So, let us get started.

To install the stress utility in a Linux EC2 instance, write the following command: -

sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y
sudo yum install stress -y

To perform the stress testing, write the following command: -

sudo stress --cpu  70 --timeout 20

To check the output, check the CPU utilization (%) of the Monitoring tab. You can see the CPU utilization goes up.

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