Amazon ElastiCache

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About Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache, compatible with Redis and Memcached, is a web service which helps businesses deploy and manage distributed in-memory data stores and cache environment in cloud. The platform enables users to build data-intensive applications and improve the performance of web apps by using in-memory caches for data retrieval.

The platform lets administrators automate various tasks, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, configuration setup, failure recovery, and data backups. Network engineers can use Amazon ElastiCache to monitor nodes and detect and diagnose issues to recover cache node failures. It also helps businesses manage memory workload by enabling read replicas or read-only copies of database instances within the same or different AWS regions in the absence of source database. Using the AWS management console, team members can view various operational metrics for Redis instances such as memory utilization, computation, cache hit ratio, active connections, and more.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached includes an auto discovery feature, which lets users identify all nodes in a cache cluster and determine changes to their configuration. With the online cluster resizing functionality, administrators can add or delete database shards from a running cluster and manage in-memory capacity based on the volume of requests.


Key benefits of Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache works as an in-memory data store and cache to support the most demanding applications requiring sub-millisecond response times. By utilizing an end-to-end optimized stack running on customer dedicated nodes, Amazon ElastiCache provides secure, blazing fast performance.


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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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Fast and In Memory System

Reviewed on 23/04/2022

Adding elasticache service to your infrastructure is quite simple. Because it is compatible with...

Adding elasticache service to your infrastructure is quite simple. Because it is compatible with Redis and Memcached, ElastiCache is extensively used, and you don't need to do anything extra to utilize it. ElastiCache is likely to be a drop-in replacement for Memcached if you already use it. You may still need to operate your own Redis/Memcached clusters for some of the more complex installations, though. It is amazing and improve the response time of the application vastly. Its highly recommended and it is integrated with cloud watch which is a plus and it is very easy for us to create alerts.

Pros

- Fully managed Redis and Memecached services on the cloud.
- Scalable, easy to scale reads with replicas.
- Integrated with cloud watch, easy to create alerts.
- Fast and Secure.
- Very easy to manage via console.
- Same price policy, pay for what you run or use.

Cons

So far there is nothing much to add here. Amazon Elasticache is simple, easy, cost effective.

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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Efficient NOSQL datastore for improving application performance

Reviewed on 30/09/2022

Pros

Response times from fetching data in elasticache makes our application highly performant.
Greate support from AWS and good documentation available in the market to use this tool effectively

Cons

Elasticache is extremely expensive. When calculating the cost acquired by AWS resources are calculated, Elasticache turns out to be the most expensive one.
It is also difficult to debug the resource when created via cloudformation templates

Amazon ElastiCache FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Amazon ElastiCache.

Amazon ElastiCache offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$0.01/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Amazon ElastiCache offers a free trial after which the software is available on usage-based subscriptions. Contact Amazon Web Services for more details.

Amazon ElastiCache has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Amazon ElastiCache supports the following languages:

English

Amazon ElastiCache supports the following devices:

Amazon ElastiCache integrates with the following applications:

AWS Management Console, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS

Amazon ElastiCache offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat

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