Customers will need to ensure the target endpoint has authorized the testing and understands the expected volumes. (1 billion packets per second) generates traffic that appears to be abusive or malicious or generates traffic that has the potential for impact to entities other than the anticipated target of the testing (such as routing or shared service infrastructure). This policy only applies when a customer's network stress test generates traffic from their Amazon EC2 instances which meets one or more of the following criteria: sustains, in aggregate, for more than 1 minute, over 1 Gbps (1 billion bits per second) or 1 Normally, tasks like customer unit tests simulating large workloads for stress testing do not generate traffic that qualifies as network stress tests. Most customer testing will not fall under this policy. Customers wishing to perform a DDoS simulation test should review our DDoS Simulation Testing policy. Volumetric network-based DDoS simulations are explicitly prohibited from the Amazon EC2 platform and are not covered by this policy. Tests that purposefully attempt to overwhelm the target and/or infrastructure with packet or connection flooding attacks, reflection and complexity attacks, or other large volumes of traffic are not considered network stress tests but are considered distributed denial of service (DDoS) tests. During network stress tests, these differences present potential risks for unintended impact to external endpoints, other customers, or AWS services. Network stress tests are different from normal production because network stress tests often target specific endpoints, have different traffic patterns including the concentration of sources and targets, maintain higher sustained volume than normal traffic, and can accidentally exceed expected limits. This policy is not concerned with normal production traffic. The endpoint and infrastructure are expected to be able to handle this traffic. We consider a 'network stress test' to be when a test sends a large volume of legitimate or test traffic to a specific intended target application. These tests are sometimes called stress tests, load tests, or gameday tests. This policy concerns customers who are planning on running high volume network tests directly from their Amazon EC2 instances to other locations such as other Amazon EC2 instances, AWS properties/services, or external endpoints.

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