Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible):Release notes

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Feature Enhancement

Cloud-native instances now support manual bandwidth adjustment.

2023-11-23

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Manually increase the bandwidth of an instance

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New Feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) introduces the Version Management Center. This feature lets you view instance information, such as version status and upgrade availability. You can also upgrade instances or configure automatic upgrade policies.

2023-10-16

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Upgrade minor and proxy versions

Feature Enhancement

Bandwidth upgrades now use the pay-as-you-go billing method.

2023-10-16

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[Notice] The billing method for bandwidth upgrades is changed to pay-as-you-go

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Feature Enhancement

Tair (Enterprise Edition) persistent memory-optimized instances now support the audit log feature.

2023-09-11

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Audit Log

Feature Enhancement

You can now upgrade the major version of cloud-native instances.

2023-09-05

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Upgrade the major version

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Feature Enhancement

2023-06-21

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Enable TLS encryption

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New Feature

The TLS encryption feature is available.

2023-05-24

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Enable TLS encryption

New Feature

Cloud-native Redis Community Edition 7.0 instances are now available with cluster architecture and read/write splitting architecture.

2023-05-17

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• Create an instance

• Major version features and compatibility

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Feature Enhancement

The virtual private cloud (VPC) or vSwitch of a cloud disk-based instance can be changed.

2023-04-03

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Change the VPC or vSwitch of an instance

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Feature Enhancement

2023-03-02

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Restore data to a point in time

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Feature Enhancement

Cloud-native instances now support the Service Availability feature.

2023-02-21

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• Manually fail over master and replica nodes

• Restart or rebuild proxy nodes

Feature Enhancement

You can now switch cloud-native instances between standard architecture and cluster architecture (proxy mode) when you upgrade or downgrade the instances.

2023-02-16

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Change instance configurations

Feature Enhancement

You can now switch the billing method of cloud-native instances between subscription and pay-as-you-go.

2023-02-09

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• Change the billing method to subscription

• Change the billing method to pay-as-you-go

Feature Enhancement

Offline Key Analysis can be used to analyze historical backup files.

2023-02-07

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Offline key analysis

New Feature

You can now create pay-as-you-go Redis cloud-native instances.

2023-02-01

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Create an instance

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New Feature

You can now create standalone cloud-native instances of Tair and Redis.

2023-01-18

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Create an instance

New Feature

You can now create pay-as-you-go cloud-native instances of Tair.

2023-01-03

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Create an instance

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New feature

Launched the instance connection diagnostics feature.

2022-12-01

All regions

Connection diagnostics

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Feature enhancement

Synchronization mode can be changed to semi-synchronous in the console for persistent memory-optimized instances.

2022-11-18

All regions

Change the synchronization mode of a Tair (Enterprise Edition) instance

New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) ESSD-based instances now support ESSD PL2 and ESSD PL3 storage types, with storage capacity up to 6 TB.

2022-11-14

All regions

Disk-based instance types

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Feature enhancement

Latency Insight is renamed as Latency Insights.

2022-10-14

All regions

Latency insights

New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) launched memory-optimized instances compatible with Redis 6.0, open source Redis 6.2, and Tair's proprietary data structures.

2022-10-13

All regions

• Tair minor version release notes

• Create an instance

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New feature

You can now query the parameter modification history of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) instances.

2022-09-01

All regions

View the parameter modification history

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New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now supports a cloud disk-based read/write splitting architecture. This architecture improves disaster recovery and lowers costs. You can configure one to five read replicas per instance.

2022-08-26

All regions

Read/write splitting

Feature enhancement

Tair instance series have been renamed: Performance-enhanced instances are now memory-optimized instances, and capacity-optimized instances are now ESSD-based instances. The persistent memory-optimized instance name remains unchanged.

2022-08-09

All regions

• Memory-optimized

• Persistent memory-optimized instances

• Disk-based instances

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New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) persistent memory-optimized instances in a cluster architecture now support minor version upgrades.

2022-07-29

All regions

Upgrade minor and proxy versions

New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now supports exporting and importing instance parameter configuration files.

2022-07-05

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Set parameters

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New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) disk-based instances now support password-free access in a VPC.

2022-06-09

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Enable password-free access

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New feature

Launched cloud disk-based instances of Redis Open-Source Edition 7.0.

2022-05-27

All regions

• Procedure

• Major version features and compatibility

New feature

You can now create cloud disk-based instances of Redis Open-Source Edition 5.0 and 6.0 on the international site (alibabacloud.com).

2022-05-27

South Korea (Seoul)

• Create an instance

• Major version features and compatibility

• Comparison between cloud-native and classic instances

New feature

Cloud disk-based instances of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now feature an instance recycle bin. It allows you to view, unlock, recreate, or permanently delete expired, overdue, or released instances.

2022-05-05

All regions

Instance recycle bin

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New feature

You can now use DTS for data migration and data synchronization with cloud disk-based instances of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible).

2022-04-21

All regions

• Data migration

• Data synchronization

New feature

Cloud disk-based instances of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now support a cluster architecture with proxy nodes. This architecture enables load balancing, request routing, and the use of multiple databases (DBs).

2022-04-21

All regions

Tair Proxy features

New region

Cloud disk-based instances of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) are now available in the South Korea (Seoul) region.

2022-04-14

South Korea (Seoul)

N/A

New feature

Cloud disk-based instances of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now support restoring data and cloning databases from backup sets.

2022-04-07

All regions

Restore data from a backup set to a new instance

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New feature

The latency insights feature in CloudDBA collects microsecond-level latency statistics for all commands and custom events in your Redis database.

2022-03-24

All regions

Latency insights

New feature

TairSearch is a proprietary full-text search module built on Redis Modules. It uses an Elasticsearch-like (ES-LIKE) query syntax and does not depend on open-source libraries like Lucene.

2022-03-11

All regions

Search

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New feature

TairCpc is a data structure that uses the Compressed Probability Counting (CPC) sketch algorithm. It enables high-performance, memory-efficient computing on sampled data.

2022-02-25

All regions

Cpc

New feature

TairTS is a time series data structure built on Redis Modules that offers low-latency, high-concurrency in-memory reads and writes, as well as fast filtering and aggregate queries. By combining storage and compute, TairTS simplifies time series workflows and improves performance.

2022-02-18

All regions

TS

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New zones

Launched new zones:

• China (Beijing) Zone J

• Indonesia (Jakarta) Zone B

• Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) Zone B

2022-01-27

• China (Beijing)

• Indonesia (Jakarta)

• Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

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New feature

From the Overview page in the console, you can now export a list of your instances. You can export all instances at once or filter them by region or zone first.

2022-01-05

All regions

Global overview of instances

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New feature

The new Overview page in the Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) console displays a global instance dashboard, resource distribution, scheduled events, product updates, and help documentation.

2021-11-24

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Global overview of instances

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New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible)Tair (Enterprise Edition) Persistent Memory Cluster Edition supports proxies. A proxy enables architecture conversion, which allows you to use the Cluster Edition in the same way as the Standard Edition. You can migrate data from a Standard Edition instance to a proxy-enabled Cluster Edition instance without modifying your code, which significantly reduces service modification costs.

2021-10-20

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Tair proxy features

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New feature

TairRoaring is a data structure developed on top of Roaring bitmaps of Tair. TairRoaring uses two-level indexes and introduces multiple dynamic containers. TairRoaring also adopts optimization methods such as single instruction, multiple data (SIMD), vectorization, and popcount to provide less memory consumption and deliver higher computing efficiency for collections.

2021-09-13

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TairRoaring

New feature

You can now enable bandwidth auto scaling for instances. This feature monitors real-time bandwidth usage and automatically adjusts it based on your policies, helping you handle traffic spikes and focus on your business.

2021-09-07

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Enable bandwidth auto scaling

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New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) memory-optimized instances support Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), which encrypts and decrypts RDB data files to enhance data security and meet compliance requirements.

2021-08-27

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Enable TDE

Feature enhancement

You can now enable password-free access for persistent memory-optimized Tair (Enterprise Edition) instances in a VPC. When this feature is enabled, clients in the same VPC can connect to the instance without a password, while password-based authentication remains supported.

2021-08-16

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Enable password-free access

Feature enhancement

You can now process a scheduled event immediately, at a specified time, or in periodic batches.

2021-08-05

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View and manage scheduled events

New feature

Tair (Enterprise Edition) now supports visual database management through Data Management Service (DMS), allowing you to manage your database efficiently without installing a client.

2021-08-04

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Connect to an instance by using DMS

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New product

Tair (Enterprise Edition) now offers persistent memory-optimized instances. These instances use persistent memory technology, provide native command-level persistence, and are compatible with most Redis data structures and APIs. They are suitable for storing and querying large amounts of warm data, offering high performance at a cost up to 30% lower than community edition Redis, while retaining 90% of its read/write throughput.

2021-07-27

China (Hangzhou)

China (Shanghai)

China (Beijing)

China (Zhangjiakou)

Persistent memory-optimized instances

New product

Tair (Enterprise Edition) now offers storage-optimized instances. Based on Alibaba Cloud ESSD technology, they provide native command-level persistence and are compatible with core Redis data structures and APIs. They are suitable for storing and querying massive amounts of warm and cold data at an extremely low cost (up to 85% cheaper than community edition Redis), with a trade-off in average performance.

2021-07-27

China (Hangzhou)

China (Shanghai)

China (Beijing)

China (Zhangjiakou)

Disk-based instances

New feature

The key analysis feature is now available. It displays real-time information about large keys and hotkeys in your instance. You can also view historical data for the last four days. This helps you understand key memory usage and access frequency to guide your optimization efforts.

2021-07-16

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Analyze top keys

New feature

TairZset, a proprietary data structure developed by Alibaba Cloud, is now supported. It allows you to sort score data of the double type across any dimension, improving data processing efficiency. Client-side adaptation is simple, requiring no encoding or decoding.

2021-07-14

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TairZset

New feature

The data flashback feature for memory-optimized Tair (Enterprise Edition) instances is now available, allowing you to restore the data of a specific key to a point in time with second-level precision. This fine-grained recovery capability helps minimize data loss from accidental operations and protects your business data.

2021-07-07

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Restore data to a point in time

New feature

The bandwidth adjustment feature is now available for Tair (Redis OSS-compatible). This helps you easily handle planned or unexpected traffic peaks and focus on improving your business.

2021-07-06

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Manually change the bandwidth of an instance

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New product

We have introduced Global Distributed Cache. This product is an active-active database system developed by Alibaba Cloud based on Tair (Redis OSS-compatible). It provides geo-replication capabilities for remote disaster recovery and active-active deployments, helping you reduce high latency caused by cross-region access.

2021-06-18

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Global Distributed Cache

New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now provides an audit log feature based on Simple Log Service (SLS). This feature allows you to query, analyze, and export logs, helping you monitor product security and performance.

2021-06-11

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Audit log

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Feature enhancement

You can now use Terraform to enable SSL encryption for Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) instances to enhance security.

2021-05-17

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Enable SSL encryption

alicloud_kvstore_instance

New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) introduces the proxy query cache feature. When this feature is enabled, proxy nodes cache requests and responses for hotkeys. When the same request is received again, the proxy node returns the result directly from the cache, which helps mitigate access skew caused by hotkeys.

2021-05-14

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API update

The CreateInstance API for Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) is updated with the following parameters:

• Port: Set the service port of the instance.

• Tag.N.Key and Tag.N.Value: The key and value of tag N for the instance.

• DryRun: Specifies whether to perform a precheck for the instance creation operation.

2021-05-12

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CreateInstance

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Feature enhancement

The performance monitoring feature for Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) is upgraded with an optimized metric display and improved response speed for a better user experience. For more information, see [Notice] Performance monitoring for Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) is upgraded.

2021-04-09

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View performance monitoring data

Monitoring metrics

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New feature

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) now supports a diagnostic report feature. This helps you evaluate the health of your instance from multiple aspects, including performance levels, access skew, and slow logs, allowing you to quickly locate exceptions.

2021-03-10

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Diagnose an instance

Instance diagnostics report

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New feature

You can change the VPC or vSwitch of a Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) instance. This enables fast, low-latency interconnection between ECS and Tair instances.

2021-02-26

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Change the VPC or vSwitch of an instance

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New product release

Global Distributed Cache, an in-house active-active database system based on ApsaraDB for Redis, is now available. It provides geo-replication for disaster recovery and multi-active deployments, reducing cross-region access latency.

2020-12-04

All regions

Global Distributed Cache

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Feature enhancement

You can now change the endpoint and port number of a cloud disk instance.

2020-11-19

All regions

Change the endpoint or port

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New feature

The pending and historical events feature is now available. You can query O&M event details for your Redis instances, such as event type, notes, and affected instances, and manually change scheduled switchover times.

2020-10-23

All regions

Query historical events

View and manage scheduled events

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New feature

A task progress bar is now available. For long-running tasks, you can click the icon in the upper-right corner of the console to view the progress and estimated completion time.

2020-09-24

All regions

N/A

Feature enhancement

Enhanced the#no_loose_disabled-commands parameter to relax restrictions on disabled commands, making more Redis commands available.

2020-09-23

All regions

• Disable high-risk commands

• Set parameters

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Feature enhancement

The slow query log for Tair (Enterprise Edition) cluster instances now includes client IP addresses for easier troubleshooting.

2020-08-28

All regions

Query slow query logs

Feature enhancement

ApsaraDB for Redis introduced new performance metrics to improve the stability and responsiveness of performance monitoring: CPU utilization, used memory, memory usage, and total number of keys.

2020-08-11

All regions

• Metric descriptions

• View performance monitoring data

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New feature

The data flashback feature is now available for Tair (Enterprise Edition) Performance-enhanced Series instances. This feature lets you restore instance data to a point in time within the last seven days, simplifying O&M, protecting your data in real time, and preventing data loss caused by accidental operations.

2020-07-29

All regions

Restore data by point in time

Feature enhancement

The security group whitelist feature has been enhanced, removing the limit on the number of host IP addresses allowed in a single ECS security group.

2020-07-29

All regions

Configure whitelists

TLS version selection

You can now select the minimum required TLS version for your instance based on security compliance and business needs. The default is TLS 1.0.

2020-07-28

All regions

Configure SSL encryption

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Feature enhancement

The scaling feature has been enhanced to provide a more seamless experience when you change instance configurations without altering the shard count.

2020-06-30

All regions

N/A

Feature enhancement

On the Instances page, you can now filter instances by zone to find the instances you need.

2020-06-30

All regions

N/A

Feature enhancement

You can now change the endpoint of an instance in a classic network.

2020-06-30

All regions

Change the endpoint or port

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New version release

Redis 6.0 is now available, featuring several key improvements. It supports the new Redis protocol (RESP3), uses multithreading for network I/O to improve performance, and includes bug fixes from previous versions.

2020-05-07

All regions

Major version features and compatibility

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Manual master-replica switchover

You can now perform a manual master-replica switchover.

2020-04-24

All regions

Manually perform a master-replica switchover

Feature enhancement

You can now choose to upgrade the minor version when you restart an instance.

2020-04-24

All regions

Restart an instance

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Restart proxy nodes

You can now manually restart or rebuild a proxy node.

2020-03-27

All regions

Restart or rebuild a proxy node

Upgrade proxy nodes

You can now manually upgrade a proxy node without service interruption.

2020-03-27

All regions

Upgrade a proxy node

Release classic network endpoint

You can now manually release the classic network endpoint of a Redis instance in a VPC.

2020-03-20

All regions

Release a classic network endpoint

Clone cluster instance

You can now clone a Redis cluster instance from a backup file.

2020-03-20

All regions

Backup and restoration

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Audit log

The audit log feature is now available.

2020-02-29

All regions

Audit log

Feature enhancement

You can now add up to 10 security groups to a whitelist for a Redis instance.

2020-02-28

All regions

Add security groups

New zone

ApsaraDB for Redis is now available in zone C.

2020-02-13

China (Zhangjiakou)

N/A

New zone

ApsaraDB for Redis is now available in zone B.

2020-02-07

China (Zhangjiakou)

N/A

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Multithreaded proxy

Redis proxy servers now support multithreading, which improves throughput, reduces the number of proxy nodes required for large-scale clusters, and enhances product stability.

2020-01-10

All regions

N/A

Change

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New zone

Hangzhou Zone I is now available.

2019-12-31

China (Hangzhou)

N/A

AOF persistence

You can now enable or disable AOF persistence for Redis instances.

2019-12-23

All

Disable AOF persistence

New zone

Beijing Zone H is now available.

2019-12-20

China (Beijing)

N/A

New multi-zone deployment

Multi-zone deployment across Zones B and C is now available in the China (Qingdao) region.

2019-12-17

China (Qingdao)

N/A

Tair (Enterprise Edition)

A new Redis edition, Tair (Enterprise Edition), is now available. Compared to the Redis Community Edition, Tair (Enterprise Edition) offers superior performance, additional data structures, and more flexible storage options.

2019-12-09

All

Tair (Enterprise Edition)

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Clear expired keys

You can now clear expired keys from a Redis instance in a single click.

2019-11-30

All

Clear data

Resource groups

You can now create Redis instances within resource groups to simplify management.

2019-11-30

All

Create resources for a resource group

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Port modification

You can now change the connection port of a Redis instance.

2019-06-30

All

Change the connection endpoint or port of an instance

Public endpoints

You can now request a public endpoint and bind it to a Redis instance for access over the internet.

2019-06-30

All

Connect to an instance by using a public endpoint

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Tag management

You can now add tags to Redis instances for easier categorization and management.

2019-05-14

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Create a tag

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Performance-enhanced edition

The performance-enhanced edition is now available. Instances of this edition deliver up to 3x the queries per second (QPS) of the Redis Community Edition.

2019-04-27

All

Memory-optimized instances

Feature enhancement

You can now directly select the private IP addresses of your existing ECS instances when you configure a whitelist.

2019-04-27

All

Step 2: Set a whitelist

Redis 5.0

Redis 5.0 is now available, introducing the new Stream data type, multiple kernel optimizations, and an improved caching experience.

2019-04-20

All

Features and compatibility of major versions

Change

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Cross-zone migration

You can now migrate a Redis instance to another zone in the same region in a single click.

2019-02-28

All

Change the zone of an instance

Change

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Release date

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Related documentation

Cache analysis

You can now perform automatic or manual cache analysis on a snapshot to identify large keys.

2019-01-31

All

Offline full-key analysis

Temporary bandwidth adjustment

You can now temporarily increase the bandwidth of an instance to twice its default value.

2019-01-31

All

Manually increase the bandwidth of an instance

New multi-zone deployment

Multi-zone deployment across Zones A and B is now available in the Indonesia (Jakarta) region.

2019-01-17

Indonesia (Jakarta)

N/A

New multi-zone deployment

Multi-zone deployment across Zones H and I is now available in the China (Hangzhou) region.

2019-01-10

China (Hangzhou)

N/A