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I absolutely acknowledge that inter-region AWS usage is over the open Internet, and no one's encouraging bad habits like transferring unencrypted data between r

• opendais 12y ago
  I may have overreacted but I've seen people make statements like "We consider this reasonably safe within EC2..." and not realize the inter-region issue. That is why I wanted to force a clear statement. I also think this really needs to be in your marketing copy or someone who is unaware of that is going to do that sort of thing. Sorry if I'm being a pain but I think you are overestimating the average developer's knowledge of the potential security issues with exposing Redis like this.
  • thibaut_barrere 12y ago
    Heroku offers 4 redis cloud providers. I wonder how many setups (if any) happen to go through inter-region, and if some of these providers support some kind of VPN/tunneling. - https://addons.heroku.com/openredis https://addons.heroku.com/openredis - https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud https://addons.heroku.com/rediscloud - https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo - https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen https://addons.heroku.com/redisgreen
    • itamarhaber 12y ago
      Redis Cloud instances are at the same region as Heroku's (both in the US and the EU) - don't know about the rest though.