Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
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Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
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Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#2It was only a matter of time before they added Redis to the mix. Glad to see it happening sooner rather than later though.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#3It was only a matter of time before they added Redis to the mix. Glad to see it happening sooner rather than later though.
We just spent days moving stuff away from Elasticache due to memcached limitations, and would love to have moved to managed Redis. We're an AWS partner, with the highest level support contract and if we'd known two weeks ago that this was in the pipeline, we would have waited. AWS, why don't you give us any road map for stuff like this?
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#4So, how does ElastiCache fare compared to all the hosted Redis-as-a-service (or Redis-as-a-PaaS-addon) products?
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#5Of all the things that you can put to the cloud, I'm not sure why people would want a cloud-hosted memory store. It's easy as heck to set it up in your own server, probably costs less to maintain and host, and faster too as it's closer to your data centers.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#6It was only a matter of time before they added Redis to the mix. Glad to see it happening sooner rather than later though.
We just spent days moving stuff away from Elasticache due to memcached limitations, and would love to have moved to managed Redis. We're an AWS partner, with the highest level support contract and if we'd known two weeks ago that this was in the pipeline, we would have waited. AWS, why don't you give us any road map for stuff like this?
yeah we recently migrated from memcached on elasticache to redis on EC2 (and bought the reservations), though our migration rolled out about 4-6 weeks ago. oh well, I guess.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#7Of all the things that you can put to the cloud, I'm not sure why people would want a cloud-hosted memory store. It's easy as heck to set it up in your own server, probably costs less to maintain and host, and faster too as it's closer to your data centers.
If you're using other AWS services, then this makes a lot of sense. It saves you the hassle of setting multiple redis nodes on EC2 and the (admittedly low) maintenance.
I think it's a good move on their part.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#8Of all the things that you can put to the cloud, I'm not sure why people would want a cloud-hosted memory store. It's easy as heck to set it up in your own server, probably costs less to maintain and host, and faster too as it's closer to your data centers.
I can't tell if you're joking - it's meant precisely for people whose "data center" IS AWS, for exactly the reason you gave.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#9Good on them for doing this, its missing one substantial configuration option though: Redis Authentication. Security groups are great, but it would be comforting to have some challenge when hitting cache.
Re: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
#10So, how does ElastiCache fare compared to all the hosted Redis-as-a-service (or Redis-as-a-PaaS-addon) products?
Well unless you roll with a Micro instance (213mb of RAM and dismal performance), the price for a Small on-demand instance (1.3GB memory) is ~$54 per month. You save quite a bit by going with a reserved instance, where you pay about $70 up-front but then your monthly instance price is almost halved, coming in at around $32 per/mo.
Either way, it's going to be more cost-effective at a lower level to go with something like Redis-to-go, Openredis, etc... if you need something simple.
Long story short, if you're on Heroku and (like me) were thinking/hoping that this might be a nice alternative to the various add-ons available ... I don't think that the juice is worth the squeeze. One, you have to administer and maintain things yourself (which is trivial for something like this, so not a big deal) but the pricing doesn't line up. The Redis providers leading the market today are able to do so because they provision the heavy-hitter EC2 nodes and then chop them up.
It's important to note though you can get a free micro instance for a year on the free usage tier. Micro's are like the section-8 housing of the server world, but free is free and beggars can't be choosers ;)