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    JMeter

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AJMeter, from Apache, is a load and performance testing tool.

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    AWS Control Tower

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe vendor presents AWS Control Tower as the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure multi-account AWS environment. With AWS Control Tower, builders can provision new AWS accounts in a few clicks, while knowing new accounts conform to company-wide policies.N/A
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    Features
    JMeterAWS Control Tower
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of Apache JMeter and AWS Control Tower
    Feature
    Apache JMeter
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    AWS Control Tower
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    Ratings
    End to end performance management9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated performance data8.522 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.521 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.521 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection4.417 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    JMeterAWS Control Tower
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (39 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
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    Availability
    1.0
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    Performance
    8.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    JMeterAWS Control Tower
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    JMeter is well suited for Java applications where the user can script the scenario once and make changes to accommodate for as many numbers of users for load test execution. The image and selection of any files or exporting files scenario is handled well.
    It is less appropriate to test Ajax applications where it is required to script click per use.
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    Amazon AWS
    We were wanting to prove the concept of a low touch process for quickly spinning up boilerplate AWS environments. We were able to get started quickly and to ensure that the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles were followed - at least upfront - however, we found that for our use case and expertise level it ultimately wasn't a fit. We have the skills on our team to manage more of this on our own. My recommendation would be contingent on what skills are already available on your team: if you can "do it yourself" you might as well so that you don't pay for resources you don't need and you have finer grain control over what's created.
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Easy of use - in generate load like HTTP requests, and processing/analyzing the responses. No coding is necessary at the basic level, just need to understand load testing and the infrastructure being tested.
    • Automatic management of things like cookies to help with session state support - so you don't specifically have to worry about it or handle it
    • Lots of testing/configuration options to suit your needs in making the right load generation (sampling requests), and analyzing the results, including any pre and post processing of the results first. Things like the Beanshell/BSF pre/post processors, response assertion, regular expression extractor, XPath extractor, CSV data set config
    • There is a JMeter cloud service called BlazeMeter that I think would be useful for those that need to scale up high load without provisioning their own systems. I've not personally tried it though, but I recently attended a meetup presentation that highlighted nice useful features that BlazeMeter provides. One should evaluate the service if they are considering JMeter and need to expand beyond existing hardware resources.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Easily create new AWS accounts.
    • Easily secure and manage AWS accounts.
    • Landing zone with SSO is a huge win for larger teams.
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    Cons
    Apache
    • Jmeter requires many tweaks with respect to its configuration file and thread properties. users need to edit theses files themselves. There could be some interface where we can edit this fields.
    • Jmeter cannot handle more threads and hangs up when we increase the number of threads. This causes lot of inconvenience. In these situations, user can be notified that such change would be lead to slow performance so that user can do as required. The same appears when we try to view huge files on graph listener.
    • Jmeter should optimize the read and write access to output csv since it acts as overhead to the I/O performance. This affects our test results for the application which we are testing.
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    Amazon AWS
    • The AWS SSO GUI is not very intuitive and determining how to apply policies to users without creating redundant logins has been a challenge.
    • The default guardrails do not fully encompass all the security checks that we needed.
    • There does not appear to be any way to control roles at the IAM level from the control tower account through the GUI.
    • Some features on AWS accounts still require logging into the individual account with the root user and cannot be done from AWS Control Tower.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
    Price, Wiki and user sharing. Having access to the information provided by the developers and other open source providers is key for me. The ability to share information and get answers directly is very important to success in software testing. And the price of this product currently is amazing. Too many companies charge way too much money for products that are far behind in their value and pertinence
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    Amazon AWS
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    Usability
    Apache
    The purpose related to performance and load testing through Apache JMeter works fine but the usability of the tool should be improved quite a lot. If someone starts with the Jmeter fresh without prior experience, they need to put more efforts in understanding the tool. The UI is not that great which is the main reason not to give high rating on usability.
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    Amazon AWS
    There is no way to easily close an AWS account whether it was created manually or via the AWS Control Tower. It takes too many steps to close it vs to provision a new AWS account
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    Support Rating
    Apache
    I have been using JMeter for the last year. By using this tool, you can make sure the system will work under varied loads. It helps us to simulate real time scenarios by creating required virtual users and make sure the application will work under load. Perform load, stress, and stability testing using JMeter.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apache
    I have used LoadRunner and Silkperformer, and so far Jmeter turns out be the easiest to use of all these. While each of them have their own ROI, Jmeter can be picked by anyone in hours and start testing within a day. While with other tools, we need to get license, install them (takes a while) and setup tests and firewalls, etc.
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    Amazon AWS
    Using AWS Systems Manager and other slightly lower level components has been helpful for us to manage parts of our AWS presence at a more granular level than AWS Control Tower was designed for. It's not at all an apples-to-apples comparison as they solve different use cases, but for us, the use case associated with AWS Systems Manager was a better fit for our specific needs and skillsets. We did not need everything that AWS Control Tower was doing for us.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • Good ROI on improving the performance of the application.
    • Finding issues in the performance.
    • Benchmark the performance results.
    • CON: Need skillset to create and maintain the scripts in Java.
    • Scripts are reusable and it is executed by any user.
    • Need Client and Server setup to execute the scripts.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Less time manually deploying accounts which was error prone.
    • Central logging allowed us to have 1 place to view logs.
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