Agreed, the value add isn't very high, especially since the pricing is higher than EC2. Surely there are some economies that could be found on servers with no disks and reduced CPU requirements? I wonder if ECC could even be done away with if they checksummed all the stored values?
It would be a real killer if they had incremental pricing (per-GB-hour) with an adjustable high watermark / replica count, and a name/port-based endpoint that always worked and routed requests to the proper cache server.
It would be a real killer if they had incremental pricing (per-GB-hour) with an adjustable high watermark / replica count, and a name/port-based endpoint that always worked and routed requests to the proper cache server.