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		pashields on Sept 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis 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.

yesbabyyes on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

Actually, Redis has a pretty clever failover solution now, in redis-sentinel: http://redis.io/topics/sentinel

aioprisan on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

redis sentinel is out in the latest stable release and was out in the dev branch for the past year

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