Two years ago, we released the Dragonfly code on GitHub because we wanted as many developers as possible to have access to what we believed was a ground-breaking technology. Following the release, we were pleasantly surprised by the wave of excitement and adoption. However, as with all software, and especially with data infrastructure products, it takes time and a lot of feedback to really perfect a technology. So we spent the next several months speaking with every user and contributor that we could in order to learn how we could build the best piece of data infrastructure possible.
After many customer conversations, a clear theme emerged. Engineers love Dragonfly because it offers them a drop-in Redis replacement that is more performant, more scalable, and more simple to manage. However, there was a major roadblock that prevented many people we spoke with from adopting Dragonfly. Due to staffing constraints, core business goals, or just their general technology strategy, they did not want to host and manage their data infrastructure. They wanted all of the power of the Dragonfly technology with a single click and without any of the management burden.
Working closely with those customers has led to today, where I am happy to announce the launch of Dragonfly Cloud. If you have been wanting to try Dragonfly but do not want to host it yourself, you are in luck. Anyone can now sign up and get access to the most performant and cost-efficient in-memory data store in the world. You can replace your legacy Redis workloads in minutes without needing to manage any infrastructure or change any application code. Simply sign up here and have your own Dragonfly Cloud data store up and running in minutes.
Why Now?
We've spent the last year manually onboarding customers in order to identify and fix bugs, harden our infrastructure, and smooth out our user experience. We now have a wide array of customers running Dragonfly Cloud workloads in production, including one of the largest streaming sites in the world, major financial trading platforms, enterprise SaaS businesses, large AdTech platforms, and more. These customers have helped make Dragonfly Cloud what it is today and ready to open up to the public. We're not naive enough to believe it's perfect, and we greatly value your feedback in order to continue to improve, but it's battle-tested, stable, and ready for you to give it a try.
How To Get Started?
To get started, just sign up and provision your Dragonfly Cloud instance in a few minutes. During the setup process, you will be able to decide which cloud and region you want to deploy to, how much memory you want, how you want to connect (VPC or public network), and if you want high availability or not.
How Much Does It Cost?
Our pricing model is simple: only pay for provisioned memory. The specific price per GB depends on the cloud/region, but as an example for AWS/us-east-1, our price is $9/GB/month. That is a no-commitment, pay-as-you-go price. You only pay for the time your infrastructure is up and running (to the nearest hour). For workloads over 250GB, we offer discounts for annual commitments. Complete this form for custom pricing.
Why Use Dragonfly Cloud Over Redis?
The first reason engineers choose Dragonfly over Redis is because it's far more performant. A single Dragonfly instance is capable of 25X the throughput of a single Redis instance. Depending on your workload, the additional performance Dragonfly delivers can mean lower latency, less downtime, a more scalable system, or all of the above. Dragonfly Cloud customers have reported Dragonfly Cloud as "50X faster for us overall," as shown below.
Latency Monitoring Screenshot from a Customer
The second reason that engineers choose Dragonfly is that it is much more cost-efficient than other managed Redis offerings. When compared to AWS ElastiCache and Redis Cloud, Dragonfly Cloud delivers a 30%–80% reduction in cost.
We're still in the early stages of our goal to build the most performant data infrastructure in the world, but we're very excited about this milestone. We're engineers ourselves and understand the desire to just get access to the product, so you can get to the most important part: building yourself. Here's to happy building with Dragonfly.
Oded Poncz
Co-Founder and CEO
