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Comment by ajtaylor | Hacker News Reader

It was only a matter of time before they added Redis to the mix. Glad to see it happening sooner rather than later though.

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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.

I get the impression that Amazon are deathly afraid of causing an Osborne effect.

According to this it should be quite easy to move your current redis on EC2 back to ElastiCache:

"Seamless Integration: If you are running Redis on EC2, you can transfer its contents to a new Amazon ElastiCache for Redis node. You may also attach a Redis node running on EC2 to an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis node."[1]

... at least after your reservations run out.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/09/04/amazon...

If you reach out to AWS people, you may get some of this information before it goes public. AWS likes to do private (NDA'd) beta tests of new products with AWS-heavy customers. They work off of the feedback while bigger customers get their needs satisfied.

we asked and they hinted a few months ago.

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