InfiniCache

InfiniCache is the first-of-its-kind, cost-effective, and high-performance, in-memory object cache that is built atop ephemeral cloud functions. InfiniCache is 31x - 96x cheaper than traditional cloud cache services.

Our USENIX FAST'20 Paper: InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache

Press:

• IEEE Spectrum: Cloud Services Tool Lets You Pay for Data You Use—Not Data You Store
• Mikhail Shilkov's detailed paper review: InfiniCache: Distributed Cache on Top of AWS Lambda (paper review)

Change log

• 03/07/2020: Updated deploy procedure and fixed the bug (incorrect path) in the scripts under deploy/.

Prepare

• EC2 Proxy

  Amazon EC2 AMI: ubuntu-xenial-16.04

  Golang version: 1.12

  Be sure the port 6378 - 7380 is avaiable on the proxy

  We recommend that EC2 proxy and Lambda functions are under the same VPC network, and deploy InfiniCache on a EC2 instance with powerful CPU and high bandwidth (c5n family maybe a good choice).

• Golang install

  Jump to install_go.md

• Package install

  Install basic package

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get -y upgrade
  sudo apt install awscli
  sudo apt install zip

  Clone this repo

  go get -u github.com/mason-leap-lab/infinicache

  Run aws configure to setup your AWS credential.

  aws configure

• Lambda Runtime

  Lambda Role setup

  Go to AWS IAM console and create a role for the lambda cache node (Lambda function).

  AWS IAM console -> Roles -> Create Role -> Lambda ->

  AWSLambdaFullAccess,

  AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole,

  AWSLambdaENIManagementAccess

  Enable Lambda internet access under VPC

  Plese refer to this article. (You could skip this step if you do not want to run InfiniCache under VPC).

• S3

  Create the S3 bucket to store the zip file of the Lambda code and data output from Lambda functions. Remember the name of this bucket for the configuration in next step.

• Configuration

  Lambda function create and config

  Edit deploy/create_function.sh and deploy/update_function.sh

  PREFIX="your lambda function prefix"
  S3="your bucket name"
  cluster=400 # number of lambda in the cache pool
  mem=1536

  Edit destination S3 bucket in lambda/collector/collector.go, this bucket is for the bill duration log from CloudWatch.

  AWSRegion = "us-east-1"
  S3BUCKET = "your bucket name"

  Edit lambda/migrator/client.go, change AWS region if necessary.

  AWSRegion = "us-east-1"

  Edit the aws settings and the VPC configuration in deploy/deploy_function.go. If you do not want to run InfiniCache under VPC, you do not need to modify the subnet and securityGroup settings.

  ROLE = "arn:aws:iam::[aws account id]:role/[role name]"
  REGION = "us-east-1"
  ...
  ...
  subnet = []*string{
    aws.String("your subnet 1"),
    aws.String("your subnet 2"),
  }
  securityGroup = []*string{
    aws.String("your security group")
  }

  Run script to create and deploy lambda functions (Also, if you do not want to run InfiniCache under VPC, you need to set the vpc flag to be false in deploy/create_function.sh).

  export GO111MODULE="on"
  go get
  deploy/create_function.sh 60

  Proxy configuration

  Edit proxy/server/config.go, change the aws region, cluster size, and prefix of the Lambda functions.

  const AWSRegion = "us-east-1"
  const NumLambdaClusters = 400
  const LambdaPrefix = "Your Lambda Function Prefix"
  const ServerPublicIp = ""  // Leave it empty if using VPC.

Execution

• Proxy server

  Run make start to start proxy server. make start would print nothing to the console. If you want to check the log message, you need to set the debug flag to be true in the proxy/proxy.go.

  make start

  To stop proxy server, run make stop. If make stop is not working, you could use pgrep proxy, pgrep go to find the pid, and check the infinicache pid and kill them.

• Client library

  The toy demo for Client Library

  go run client/example/main.go

  The result should be

  ~$ go run client/example/main.go
  2020/03/08 05:05:19 EcRedis Set foo 14630930
  2020/03/08 05:05:19 EcRedis Got foo 3551124 ( 2677371 865495 )

Related repo

Client library ecRedis
Redis protocol redeo
Benchmarking tool redbench

To cite InfiniCache

@inproceedings {246184,
author = {Ao Wang and Jingyuan Zhang and Xiaolong Ma and Ali Anwar and Lukas Rupprecht and Dimitrios Skourtis and Vasily Tarasov and Feng Yan and Yue Cheng},
title = {InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache},
booktitle = {18th {USENIX} Conference on File and Storage Technologies ({FAST} 20)},
year = {2020},
isbn = {978-1-939133-12-0},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {267--281},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast20/presentation/wang-ao},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
month = feb,
}

Contributing

Please feel free to hack on InfiniCache! We're happy to accept contributions.