Is Amazon's ElastiCache that expensive?

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moeseth picture moeseth · Apr 3, 2015 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I had an ElastiCache redis running on Amazon and forgot to turn it off after testing for a month. And today, they charged me USD230.

Since this is my first time using Amazon and not even using a lot of memory, I'm just wondering if it's that expensive. If it is, imagine running full 16GB redis.

Answer

E.J. Brennan picture E.J. Brennan · Apr 4, 2015

They certainly can be that expensive; for an ondemand instance pricing could be as low as around $12/month for a micro instance with ondemand pricing and as much as about $2750/month for a single r3.8xlarge.

Bummer that you wasted the money, but it could have been a lot worse if you had spun up their biggest instance to test on.

I often worry about making mistakes like that, so I review my costs almost daily, but at least every few days.

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/

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