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What is Amazon ElastiCache?

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store and cache in the cloud. Often working in conjunction with other AWS database and storage services, ElastiCache ensures modern applications meet real-time requirements for high data throughput and sub-milli second response times, while serving millions of simultaneous requests. Amazon ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory engines: o Redis - a fast, open source, in-memory data store and cache. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible in-memory service that delivers the ease-of-use and power of Redis along with the availability, reliability and performance suitable for the most demanding applications. ElastiCache for Redis is fully managed, scalable, and secure - making it an ideal candidate to power high-performance use cases such as Web, Mobile Apps, Gaming, Ad-Tech, and IoT. o Memcached - a widely adopted memory object caching system. Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached is protocol compliant with Memcached, so popular tools that you use today with existing Memcached environments will work seamlessly with the service. ElastiCache for Memcached is suitable for caching use cases where performance and concurrency is important.

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Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached. Seamlessly deploy, operate, and scale popular open source compatible in-memory data stores. Build data-intensive apps or improve the performance of your existing apps by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.

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Amazon ElastiCache is used to significantly improve latency and throughput for modern applications that serve millions of simultaneous users or devices, require instantaneous response times, and cope with massive spikes in data volumes.


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Recent Amazon ElastiCache Reviews

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Igor Z.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good service for SW cache"
We are using Elastic Cache Redis, and like that, I can use it without managing the infrastructure.
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Nir L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Simple to use, serverless Key-Value storage"
ElasticCache (for Redis) is simple to set up, reasonably priced, and very easy to use with modern development languages. The Redis version supports...
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5.0 out of 5
"Excellent for partitioning!"
It's basically the original redis while redis.io is a different product, not redis compatible without all it's features. elasticcache has all redis...

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS ElastiCache is easy to implement with irrepctive redis and Memcached, sign in to AWS and spin the server as per the application requirement, Any time server can be upscaled and downscaled based on the requirement, and can create highly available clusters with multiple nodes, to manage the application traffic very efficiently, Creating the credential is too easy that we can create a group and create multiple users and assign with different roles. With the AWS Eco system, we can connect our ElastiCache server at any time from anywhere using an EC2 machine, while attaching top Security configuration. AWS ElastiCache provides a frequent snapshot facility for any event that happens so we can revert the changes—hassle-free version upgrade. AWS Support is Top-notch in the market. if we need any help related to infra, the AWS support team will be available 24/7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Run on the Default port, and not let us change it. nothing else was found in Elasticache clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaling the Web Application, to reduce the latency of the Web Trafic, To access cache data will be faster than accessing the data from the the traditional DBMS system. improve load and response times to user actions and queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

Elasticache is fully managed cache service . I have integrated my app with dynamo dB and elasticache with redis caching engine which made my app super fast on the data that was frequently accessed . Elasticache supports hashes ,sets aswell this I loved most , without elasticache if I want to use caching on dynamo dB I would have used redis but that would be really difficult for me to deploy and maintain.

Simple and easy to setup

Dynamodb accelerator also does the same but it is specific to dynamo dB but elasticache can be used with multiple data stores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It is really expensive.

It is only compatible with AWS databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used caching with redis in my application with dynamodb . Elasticache is fully managed in memory caching service and I don't need to deploy or monitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

ElasticCache (for Redis) is simple to set up, reasonably priced, and very easy to use with modern development languages. The Redis version supports all the open-source features as well as clustering, upward scaling, and serverless architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It's hard to scale down if you need to, and the lowest scale is a bit pricey for smaller organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Redis Elastic Cache as a memory store for short and medium-lived key-value data. Using Elasticache also allows us to have a multi-node cluster so we can be sure we are always up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

What I love the most out of ElastiCache is no more operational overhead, my team don't have to manage anything beyond configuring the instance types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Not anything right at the moment , but it would be nice if it scales where based on the usage rather than manually configuring instance types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We primarily use it for caching freaquenty read data , we are also exploring the use case for pub/sub Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS elastic cache helps the user boost web application performance by allowing them to obtain data faster from the in-memory cache. It reduces the database costs and thus the load on the backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS Elastic Cache is very expensive and not easily affordable by everyone. The default TTL is infinity. We cannot limit the client from accessing data stores via the AWS console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Elastic cache helps us provide data faster from the cache, which helps improve the application functionality and database management. It is fully compatible with Redis and Memcached hence no extra effort. It is high-speed, efficient and offers flexible pricing. It not only helps to improve load and response time to user actions and queries but also reduces the cost associated with scaling web application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It has amazing performance and security features. Its amazingly scalable, and very easy to use when developing applications. You can very easily integrate and implement with your application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Cache is stored in primary storage instead of secondary, which makes it little time consuming. The default configurations give it TTL as infinite. Being part of AWS infrastructure, the biggest drawback is the time consuming nature of AWS Infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives a very performant in memory database which can be used as cache. Hence caching improves my application performance by tons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It's basically the original redis while redis.io is a different product, not redis compatible without all it's features. elasticcache has all redis features, and all the clients fully supports it.

It had great partitioning support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

not much but a little bit expensive. consider using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

fast cache for my services + being able to support all redis features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS Redis Cache Gives us great performance for our open Source Moodle LMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It is very expensive and difficult to afford in India. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We couldn't run our LMS without a high-performance cache. We tried a lot with configuring the Redis cache on dedicated hosting on high-end servers but it couldn't deliver the services like AWS Redis Cache. At last, I came in contact with the AWS team and their Elasticache met our requirements of cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It does what it says, response times have improved since implementing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Not a dislike but you need to understand its use cases and work with it. Things such as static pages are usually best left to cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed retrival for key requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

The best thing I like about Amazon ElastiCache is that our applications become faster as they store frequently accessed data in a dedicated memory known as a cache. This accelerates fetching data, leading to improved response times for your us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Using Amazon ElastiCache can lead to additional costs for the resources and data storage it needs. So we need to use it carefully. ElastiCache has a fixed capacity, so it may not perform optimally if your application exceeds the cache size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon ElastiCache solves the issue of slow database performance by offering a fast and efficient memory-based cache. This helps applications run faster and reduces the time fetching data from databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.