Load Testing AWS Serverless Architectures with Serverless

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Claims that load testing must verify actual scaling behaviour and costs not just architecture diagrams, and demonstrates using Serverless Artillery (Artillery on Lambda) to drive massive parallel traffic, measuring cold starts, throttles and cost-per-action. Shows a live case (Gamercraft) and advises observability with CloudWatch X-Ray and a dedicated provider, replicating prod per test, committing repeatable scenarios, and to run load tests from a different AWS account. Notes real limits like Cognito list-users 30/s hard limit and Lambda default 1000 concurrency.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:46What is Serverless
3. 6:03What is Load Testing
4. 10:40Where to Start
5. 12:02Metrics
6. 14:10Load Testing Toolkit

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