# Cloud Memorystore - [Main page](https://cloud.google.com/memorystore) # Tech thinks to remember - Managed Redis and Memcached ## Redis Connect from: - [[App Engine]] - [[Google Cloud Compute Engine]] - [[Cloud Functions]] - [[Anthos#Cloud Run|Cloud Run]] - [[Google Kubernetes Engine]] Max 300GB memory vs 5TB for Memcached Redis Tiers: - Basic tier: - no replication - no cross-zone - no automatic failover - Standard Tier - replication - cross zone - auto failover ## Memcached Distributed in-memory key-value store Great for one-to-one correlations: - Reference data - Database query cache - Session caching Cluster - 20 nodes. Each with - 1-32 vCPUs - 1-256GB Memory - max 5TB memory per instance Connects from: - [[Google Cloud Compute Engine]] - [[Google Kubernetes Engine]] - [[Cloud Functions]] - [[App Engine]] - NOT Cloud Run