diff --git a/app/models/global_setting.rb b/app/models/global_setting.rb
index c81430d2cd5..67320ee5e8c 100644
--- a/app/models/global_setting.rb
+++ b/app/models/global_setting.rb
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ class GlobalSetting
         c[:password] = redis_password if redis_password.present?
         c[:db] = redis_db if redis_db != 0
         c[:db] = 1 if Rails.env == "test"
+        c[:id] = nil if redis_skip_client_commands
 
         c.freeze
       end
diff --git a/config/discourse_defaults.conf b/config/discourse_defaults.conf
index 2957af97e6e..1b5fba60734 100644
--- a/config/discourse_defaults.conf
+++ b/config/discourse_defaults.conf
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ redis_db = 0
 # redis password
 redis_password =
 
+# skip configuring client id for cloud providers who support no client commands
+redis_skip_client_commands = false
 
 # enable Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) directly at the application level
 enable_cors = false