Situation

As a cornerstone of the American financial industry and the largest credit ratings agency, this client requires nearly 100% availability of its systems with response times of less than a second.

With over 500,000 daily logins and 1.5 million users worldwide, it was critical to the client’s business operations that it achieve the following objectives:

  • 99.995% availability
  • <1 sec. AuthN response
  • Minimized performance issues at production go-live
  • Multiple runs of performance and load testing
  • Load Testing of each metric-capturing component
  • Understanding of scalability of cloud infrastructure in terms of newer sites and regions going live

AST’s team met and exceeded the client’s mandate to build a robust identity and access management system in cloud. The team simulated the complex endurance and stress test scenarios for 10x the current user load; the rigor in complex testing scenarios ensured that worldwide users have secure access to critical applications with no disruptions, despite any type of catastrophic failures in any region. Kudos to the AST team, who worked with Oracle, AWS, and the client to deliver a top-notch security system operating at scale and 99.999 availability!

Shyam Kumar Vice President, Middleware, AST LLC
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AST’s team met and exceeded the client’s mandate to build a robust identity and access management system in cloud. The team simulated the complex endurance and stress test scenarios for 10x the current user load; the rigor in complex testing scenarios ensured that worldwide users have secure access to critical applications with no disruptions, despite any type of catastrophic failures in any region. Kudos to the AST team, who worked with Oracle, AWS, and the client to deliver a top-notch security system operating at scale and 99.999 availability!

Shyam Kumar Vice President, Middleware, AST LLC

Solutions & Benefits of Performance & Load Testing

AST enabled multiple runs of performance and load testing to ensure peak system performance for 1 million concurrent users, automated datacenter failover, automated layer-by-layer failover with AWS Lambda, and more, with ongoing support for business continuity.

The client has realized the following benefits of the solution:

  • Demonstrated business continuity – no service disruption even when AWS Ireland failed; seamless redirect to AWS-EAST
  • Automated correction action with CloudWatch alerts on sustained failure events and seamless failover to another AWS region
  • Quantifiable assessment of performance, responsiveness, and scalability of each system and application component against identified baseline
  • Automated scale-up and scale-down for a new instance at the data layer
Industry: Financial Information & Analytics

Testing Solution Components:

  • Jmeter
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS Lambda
  • Java packages
  • AWS Route 53
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Why AST?


AST delivered a modern and intuitive performance & load testing solution to ensure the availability and responsiveness of the client’s global systems.  The solution has resulted in demonstrated business continuity and systems reliability.