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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by AznHisoka on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:49AM (#6328372)
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.
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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by apetresc on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:56AM (#6328418)
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.
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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by purephase on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:55AM (#6328410)
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.

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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by pashields on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:17PM (#6328958)
They handle automatic failover, which redis does not currently do out of the box. That part is pretty cool. Maybe not worth the price, but definitely useful.
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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by yesbabyyes on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:55PM (#6329190)
Actually, Redis has a pretty clever failover solution now, in redis-sentinel: http://redis.io/topics/sentinel
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Re:Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis by aioprisan on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:08PM (#6329709)
redis sentinel is out in the latest stable release and was out in the dev branch for the past year
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