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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached

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Re: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached

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Post by axomhacker »

atlbeer wrote: post #2

I was excited at first until I realized this is merely just an AWS-managed memcache cluster. I was really hoping for another layer of abstraction away from the server level and more just an interface. More like SimpleDB than RDS to use the AWS analogy.

Interesting. For a key-value store what could be another abstraction though?

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Post by robryan »

natrius wrote: post #4

ELB is cheaper than running your own EC2 load balancer, but ElastiCache is more expensive than the same raw EC2 servers. It makes sense, but I was hoping it'd be as much of a no-brainer as ELB was.

You would think they should be able to offer it cheaper, as they will be able organise it to get a lot more users/ CPU usage per server than the usage they would typically get from an average EC2 server.

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Post by rbranson »

vessenes wrote: post #5

It would be great, really great, if this were priced per-gigabyte of RAM and per-gig transferred. To my mind, memcache should be billed and used more like a CDN. Until then, this makes sense only for mid-large scale memcache deployments, similar to Amazon's RDS.

Agreed, the value add isn't very high, especially since the pricing is higher than EC2. Surely there are some economies that could be found on servers with no disks and reduced CPU requirements? I wonder if ECC could even be done away with if they checksummed all the stored values?

It would be a real killer if they had incremental pricing (per-GB-hour) with an adjustable high watermark / replica count, and a name/port-based endpoint that always worked and routed requests to the proper cache server.

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Post by jeffbarr »

url2png wrote: post #8

Weeee, this infinite signup loop is a blast! 10 You already have access to Amazon ElastiCache 20 You must sign up for Amazon ElastiCache before you can use the Amazon ElastiCache Console. GOTO 10

Whoops, that's not good. Email your AWS account number to me and I'll pass it along to the team.
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