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Tag: ElastiCache

Testing Automatic Failover to a Read Replica on HAQM ElastiCache for Redis

Darin Briskman is a developer evangelist at HAQM Web Services. You can reach him @briskmad “Trust, but verify.” — U. S. President Ronald Reagan, 1987 In this comment, President Reagan quoted a Russian proverb to describe his philosophy for nuclear disarmament treaties. But the same philosophy also applies well to DevOps! HAQM ElastiCache for Redis […]

ElastiCache for Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing

Clusters provide a lot of capabilities in HAQM ElastiCache for Redis. Using autosharding to distribute data across the shards of a cluster enables high performance (over 4.5m writes/sec and 20m reads/sec, with each operation typically under 500µs) and high capacity (up to 3.5TiB of data) with high reliability and with recovery of failed nodes usually […]