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Notes to self: How do you know if a Redis cache is contactable?

I stood up a new Elasticache Redis cluster today for a colleague, and he was having trouble connecting. Often in AWS this means there’s a screwed up security group, but after checking the groups, he was still unable to connect.

So I logged into the staging server in question, raised my fingers to the keyboard and…

Realised I had no idea how to talk to Redis.

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