Learning Paths on AWS:

Building a fast session store for your online applications with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

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Introduction

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Create a Redis cluster

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Session caching with Redis

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Cleanup

Step 3: Cleanup

To finish this experiment, you will learn how to delete your Redis Cluster when it’s not needed anymore.

Time to Complete Module: 10 Minutes

Delete your Redis Cluster

In order to delete your Redis Cluster, go to the Amazon ElastiCache Dashboard and follow these instructions:

3.1 - Select “Redis” on the left pane.

This will show you a list of all your Redis clusters.

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3.2 — Select the Redis Cluster you created for this tutorial.

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3.3 — Click on “Delete”.

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3.4 — You will be asked if you want to create a final backup.

The status of your cluster will change to “deleting”.

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Congratulations!

You have learnt how to manage user sessions with a distributed key/value database. By leveraging on the Redis hash data type, you stored user data in an ElastiCache node and configured the session expiration mechanism.

Next Steps

If you want to learn more about caching in AWS, read this Caching Overview and make sure you check the documentation for Session Management. The code samples can be found in this repository.