This document discusses load testing cloud applications for performance. It notes that load testing can validate cloud application designs, test actual capacity gains from adding servers, plan proactive cloud scaling, and test failover procedures. It promotes the Mega Testing Cloud from Apica which can load test applications with up to 1 million concurrent users. Pricing examples are provided showing costs starting at $6-420 per hour to load test on AWS with 100-10,000 users per AWS instance. A demo of ProxySniffer for free load testing of up to 20 users is also offered.
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