Caching with AWS

A discussion focussing around offsetting the cache of a Drupal site into the AWS cloud.

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1. Caching with AWS - Adam Malone Palm off your caching
2. DrupalDatabaseCache • Default • Simple • Slow
3. MemCacheDrupal • Good contrib module • Simple to implement on the Drupal side • Potentially difficult to install Memcache ◦ Maybe impossible on shared hosting ◦ Technical debt on dedicated servers • Limitations of hosted solutions
4. AWS • Simple provisioning • No maintenance • Reliable • Low latency connection to EC2
5. ElastiCache • ElastiCache: In-memory cache • Memcache / REDIS • No abstracted contributed module (yet)
6. DynamodbCache • DynamoDB • AWS backed k/v store • Contributed module ◦ http://drupal.org/project/dynamodb ◦ https://github.com/typhonius/dynamodb ◦ http://note.io/1mQZgps
7. Questions • adam@adammalone.net