Install Redis on Amazon EC2 Linux AMI or CentOS
Complete guide on installing and configuring Redis 2.6 as a service on Amazon EC2 running with Amazon Linux AMI or CentOS. The procedure should apply to Fedora and Red Hat distributions as well. In case you feel like skipping these steps, feel free to use the Github Script for an even simpler installation and configuration of Redis as a service. By the way, a hearty thanks to John over at SaltWebsites for his awesome tutorial. Also, for a tutorial on installing Redis 2.6 as a service on Ubuntu and Windows, please click here and here respectively. Another tutorial on installing and using the C- client library for Redis, Hiredis is provided here . 1. Install Linux updates, set time zones, followed by GCC and Make sudo yum -y update sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indianapolis \ /etc/localtime sudo yum -y install gcc make 2. Download, Untar and Make Redis 2.6 wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.0-rc3.tar.gz tar xzf redis-2.6.0-rc3.tar.gz cd...