Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache

Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by cardmagic on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @12:12AM (#2915316)

$68.40/month seems a bit high to me

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by jdelsman on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:15AM (#2915439)

Yeah, you may as well just run an EC2 node with memcached on it...

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by rcaught on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:48AM (#2915513)

Except running memcached on an EC2 instance is not equivalent to the ElastiCache offering. With ElastiCache you are paying for a redundant, managed service that can be scaled and monitored through a few clicks of a webpage or API.

Outsourcing these type of things is potentially justifiable to a developer whose wallet is full and many hats touch the ceiling.

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by simonw on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:54AM (#2915764)

In what way is ElastiCache redundant?

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by jacques_chester on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @05:14AM (#2915933)

> In addition, Amazon ElastiCache automatically detects and replaces failed Cache Nodes, providing a resilient system that mitigates the risk of overloaded databases, which slow website and application load times.

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by fallous on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:40AM (#2915492)

Or membase, which gives you storage-backing and TAP protocol to do things like fetching all keys.

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache by andrevoget on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:57AM (#2915533)

$68.40/month is the price for the smallest instance with only 1.3 GB. The biggest instance with 68 GB costs $1,612.80 per month.

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