Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis

Post by jessaustin » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

tyw wrote: post #6

werkshy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by spartango » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

werkshy wrote: post #3

ajtaylor wrote: post #2

It 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?

Post by pashields » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #5

Of 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.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

purephase wrote: post #7

AznHisoka wrote: post #5

Of 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.

Post by progx » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #10

derefr wrote: post #4

So, 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…