Can you connect to Amazon Elasticache 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 an Elasticache Redis node outside of Amazon EC2 instances, such as from my local dev setup or VPS instances provided by other vendors.

Currently when trying from my local set up:

redis-cli -h my-node-endpoint -p 6379

I only get a timeout after some time.

Answer 1

There are a few configurations which you can provide the Redis cache with so that you will be able to access it from the outside. I will attach the official documentation and get down to the “How to Access ElastiCache Resources from Outside AWS” 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/accessing-elasticache.html