INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After five months in public beta, Google today announced that its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, its fully managed in-memory data store, is
now generally available.
The service, which is fully compatible with the Redis protocol, promises to offer sub-millisecond responsesfor
applications that need to use in-memory caching
And because of its compatibility with Redis, developers should be able to easily migrate their applications to this service without making
any code changes.
Cloud Memorystore offers two service tiers — a basic one for simple caching and a standard tier for users who need a
highly available Redis instance
For the standard tier, Google offers a 99.9 percent availability SLA.
Since it first launched in beta, Google added a few additional
capabilities to the service
You can now see your metrics in Stackdriver, for example
Google also added custom IAM roles and improved logging.
As for pricing, Google charges per GB-hour, depending on the service level and
You can find the full pricing list here.
