Connect AWS redis to node using node-redis

I am using node-redis and having a hard time connecting to external redis instance. I tried with redis-cli and it worked. However with node I am not able to figure out how to properly give the url and port.

With Redis-cli-

redis-cli -h mydomain.something.something.cache.amazonaws.com -p 6379

However with nodejs

Below didn't work

var client = redis.createClient('redis://mydomain.something.something.cache.amazonaws.com:6379'),

neither

var client = redis.createClient({host:'redis://mydomain.something.something.cache.amazonaws.com', port: 6379});

How do I configure it. Please help.

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