Can you connect to Amazon ElastiСache Redis outside of Amazon?

Question

I\'m able to connect to an ElastiCache Redis instance in a VPC from EC2 instances. But I would like to know if there is a way to connect to

Answer 1

SSH port forwarding should do the trick. Try running this from you client.

ssh -f -N -L 6379::6379 

Then from your client

redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379

It works for me.

Please note that default port for redis is 6379 not 6739. An also make sure you allow the allow the security group of the EC2 node that you are using to connect to your redis instance into your Cache security group.

Also, AWS now supports accessing your cluster more info here