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Amazon ElastiCache

Overview

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached.

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8 out of 10
September 14, 2023
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In our services, some of the information inside the database is not required to retrieve frequently from there. In such cases, we use …
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Service Offering Details

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

Amazon ElastiCache allows users to set up, run, and scale popular open-source Redis and Memcached compatible in-memory data stores as a fully managed cloud service. Build data-intensive apps or boost the performance of existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores. Amazon ElastiCache is a popular choice for real-time, sub-millisecond use cases like Caching, Session Stores, Leaderboards, Geospatial Services, and Real-Time Analytics.

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Reviews and Ratings

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April 24, 2018

Super easy memcached!

Andrew Raines | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrew Raines
Backend Software Engineer
10 Digital Media Limited (Sports, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use ElastiCache as a general purpose cache layer in its Memcached compatible mode. This is in our backend stack and used to store anything which needs to be shared between multiple hosts. Primarily, this is database query result sets but does include a number of other items too.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to set up and zero maintenance
  • Relatively low cost
  • Drop-in replacement for Memcached service
  • Doesn't quite have all the same rich feature set in some places. Some of the more advanced setups may not be able to be replicated on ElastiCache, so if you need to do anything in that area you may need to rethink the architecture or run your own nodes instead.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is an extremely easy way to have a caching service added to your infrastructure. As it supports Redis and Memcached compatibility, it means it is very widely supported too and you don't have to do anything special to use ElastiCache. If you are already a Memcached user you can more than likely use ElastiCache as a drop-in replacement. However, for some of the more advanced setups, you may still need to run your own Redis/Memcached clusters.
Return on Investment
  • Basically, zero-maintenance Memcached clusters, meaning the time can be spent elsewhere rather than looking after our own.
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