# Amazon ElastiCache Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 87 ## About 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. ## Amazon ElastiCache Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users highlight the **cost efficiency** of alternatives to AWS, seeking better performance at significantly lower prices. (1 reviews) - Users highlight **poor customer support** , citing unresolved issues and lack of care from AWS during critical situations. (1 reviews) - Users love the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times significantly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times significantly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times significantly. (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express frustration with **high costs and lack of support** , leading them to switch to alternative services like GCP. (1 reviews) - Users experience **downtime issues** when scaling large Redis clusters, requiring careful planning and rebalancing for stateful workloads. (1 reviews) - Users criticize the **expensive costs** of AWS ElastiCache, often feeling it doesn't provide sufficient value or support. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration with **poor customer support** from Amazon ElastiCache, prompting many to switch to better alternatives. (1 reviews) - Users face **scaling issues** with ElastiCache, needing careful planning and rebalancing for large Redis clusters. (1 reviews) ## Amazon ElastiCache Reviews ### 1. Amazon ElastiCache: Ultra-Low Latency That Smoothly Handles Traffic Spikes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2026 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** What I like most about Amazon ElastiCache is its extremely low-latency performance. It noticeably improves application response times by offloading frequent reads from the database, and it also handles traffic spikes smoothly. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Scaling large Redis clusters isn’t always seamless; it can require planning for downtime or doing careful rebalancing, especially when you’re dealing with stateful workloads. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us maintain application stability by handling traffic spikes without overwhelming our databases. The built-in replication and failover features have improved availability and helped reduce downtime. ### 2. Easy to Use ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** hemang t. | Senior Database Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **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. **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. **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 ### 3. Elasti cache for college_app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Korla G. | Open source contributor , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is really expensive. It is only compatible with AWS databases. **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. ### 4. Worst Support in industry and talk about sercurity flaws in AWS... **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** They offere verything at overpriced cost we did Elastic Serach hosting 10K a month moved away from aws cost is 800 a month at better perfomance, someone got access to a key at somepoint we rotated but the account kept getting comprosied and missused we raised 30 tickets to AWS no one care and end up us leaving as a billg over 60K came due to this, where as we didn't consume any of the 60K and again aws didn't care at all... **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** If you like to pay 10X more for nothing, get no support or pay for a support that goes in circle go for AWS.... we moved to GCP instead which is 10X better... AWS wonder why people uses it? Burning VC money maybe. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looks good on paper, but oh boy they have the worst support and will not care at all... and once you got a problem they dont care at all! I will never use them again ### 5. Simple to use, serverless Key-Value storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nir L. | VP R&D, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 6. One click relieve from operational overhead !! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivekanandan S. | Senior Engineer in Software Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2023 **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 **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 **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 ### 7. Elastic Cache Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachit M. | Entity Non Officer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2023 **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 **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 **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 ### 8. AWS In-Memory Cache **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2023 **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 **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 **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. ### 9. Excellent for partitioning! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** not much but a little bit expensive. consider using it. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast cache for my services + being able to support all redis features. ### 10. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil Kumar S. | System Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** AWS Redis Cache Gives us great performance for our open Source Moodle LMS. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is very expensive and difficult to afford in India. **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. ### 11. Speedy solution for repeat requests **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Senior Analyst Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It does what it says, response times have improved since implementing. **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. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed retrival for key requests ### 12. Unleashing the Potential of Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham K. | Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 13. High speed cloudnative in-memory cache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nandakumar G. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** * it's compatible with redis and memcached engine * It supports resource wise access for application data * Since it supports redis and memcached engine already, we don't have to do heavy refactoring in our code to move from self managed redis/memcached to EC, we can continue using popular opensource clients to connect with EC. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** * ElastiCache is little bit expensive when compared to other managed caching services, but it makes sense to use EC if all of our infrastructure is in AWS. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** * EC helped us in increasing the application response time by enabling us to quickly retrieve the data from the cache, without requiring heavy ops. ### 14. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** More storage, integrated cache and good to have open search engine for memory storage. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Nothing as such to highlight here for this product called Amazon elasticache but the deployment and implementation was challenging. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** KVD, helping in data modeling and data type. ### 15. AWS Memory cache service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj K. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is easy to use and compitable with redis which is the most used cache service **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is slightly expensive than using the redis directly **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was able to reduce the turn around time of the application to reach the database instead using mem cache service ### 16. In Memory datacache in awscloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravanan M. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Open source and highly performing in-memory key-value store **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Complexity and costs and limited data structures **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly for data caching and enabling for fast performing things where dB is not required for fetching data ### 17. Elastic cache reciew **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Namrata Y. | DevOps Automation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The like best about elasticcache are Gaming Caching Session store Real time analytics Geospatial service Querying Gaming to reduce latency bec it has its features **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not anything right at the moment. One thing I can tell if it scale based on the usuage rather than manually configuring the. Instances. types............... **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem that I faced is about latency but due to below features it was resolved Gaming Caching Session store Real time analytics Geospatial service Querying Gaming to reduce latency bec it has its features ### 18. Amazon ElastiCache is Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Charan P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** I have used Amazon ElastiCache in my DevOps project, it really helped me in understanding my web application. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** I don't think I dislike it, it good to use. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes me understand my we applications & storage when comes to database ### 19. It’s the best for redis cluster. Haven’t faced any performance issues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay K. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to setup and manage the redis cluster. Cross replication is also easy to do for High Availability. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** I haven't found any dislikes from the elastic ache. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving our problem to store the session cache across all the kubernetes pods ### 20. The best cashe for your data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanka B. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It's a very best cloud service for caching data and working with it in minimum cost. This gives the good performance with database. I would like to use this service instead other cloud platforms. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Initially it take time to learn or get hands on the things. But that ok once you get familiar with it **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** This service was very helpful to us while we were working with large amount of data. ### 21. Best available elastic cache in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deepanshu y. | Owner at business (personal_, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Highly available, highly scalable, easy to use, and has no performance-related issues at all, using it for 6 years and never found any issue **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** not as such, all relevant features are available, cost might seems higher compared to self hosted solution **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for caching frequently accessed static data to reduce the load on SQL database ### 22. ElastiCache is super fast **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ajay k. | Backend Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Cloud based reachbility to super fast in-memory database with low latency. Available mostly at every sea data center helps to all the organisations. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It's not support full features of redis but most likely works like redis. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster data retrieval for processing high speed transactions in low latency platforms and frameworks. ### 23. Elastic Cache **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasanth G. | Software Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It improved the performance of the web applications and helps in retrieveing information fast which is managed in system **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** I liked amazon elasticache a lot. I dont see any over here. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** In system storage data retrival ### 24. Fast and reliable for sensitive data caching **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to store and retrieve cached data faster. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Pricing, In my opinion pricing is on higher side **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** Yes **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** advanced caching capabilities for storing frequently used data like log in informations, device info, IP ### 25. Aws Cloud For Deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** anshika s. | Software QA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Aws has best service in the market, it's very usefull in terms of deployment and development and mostly it's preffered by most of the organisation due to its customer support **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Nothing to dislike here, all services are good **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically it's solving access management problem which we have faced earlier in VMware on the basis of regions and also it's make project delivery fast in terms of deployment ### 26. AWS is best to deploy serverless applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kalmeshwar G. | Senior Android Application Developer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** - AWS provide free tier account which is help beginners to study and learn - AWS EC2 is very easier than other cloud platforms - Uptime is very good - Easy and secure system **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** - a bit costly but we can focus on other good features which AWS is providing - It is Complicated for beginners **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS helps in big data processing effectively ### 27. AWS provides on of the most reliable servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayant H. | Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The reliability The speed of the sever After switching from godaddy I never looked back **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** If it could be a little cheaper it would be better for me, but the service is unmatched so no complaints **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** No other service compares to AWS, the speed is just blatantly fast. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running my website on AWS since 6 years ### 28. Amazon ElastiCache - In-memory databases with really high performance & low latency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon Elasticache helps us reduce databases load when there are read intensive workloads. Used Elasticache Redis to store the frequently accessed data retrieved from DB. Redis has Multi-AZ with auto-failover feature, which ensures data availability. It has key features such as read replicas, backup & restore. Elasticache has an invalidation strategy to ensure only the most current data is used in cache. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** As of now, there are no dislikes and downsides for this product. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web application used to hit the database every time in case of any read operations in RDS. By using ElastiCache, the application first queries ElastiCache to retrieve the data, which improves application performance. If the data is not available, it will read the data from DB and store it in ElastiCache. User session data can also be stored in Cache. It helps to make our application stateless. AWS takes care of OS maintenance and patching. ### 29. Elasticache is an AWS database service for caching the data for speedy retrievals **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Elasticache is an AWS database service for caching the data for speedy retrievals. AWS RDS can be the tool used with this software. Amazon S3 can also be used. its good. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Sometimes it can be a costly method to implement when you are very low on no fo services running. it can also vary with different regions it is placed in. otherwise it is good **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes it can be a costly method to implement when you are very low on no fo services running. it can also vary with different regions it is placed in. otherwise, it is good ### 30. Amazon Elasticache is more like Redis. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roshan L. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** AWS Elasticache is an alternate of Redis if you are already into AWS stack. It fits best with serverless technology as well. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** What I personally did not like about elasticache is its implementation with Lambda. It was not easy to implement with Lambda functions. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** I would say AWS Elasticache is a great service. And in today's world of technology, we all need a service like this for either cache or key-value database. It fastens your applications. It is a must to have in your architecture. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using Elasticache for caching and key-value database. It's extremely fast and optimized. ### 31. Used ElastiCache widely in many of my projects configuration is straightforward and performance good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayachandra Reddy M. | Associate Technical Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon Elasticache is being used by our product infra and storing data in redis by which our product need quick access. Along with aurora we used to ecperience seemless performance. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Some of the more advanced setups may not be able to replicate on elasticache, so if you need to do anything in that area, we may need to rethink the architecture or run our own node based instead of managed. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using ElastiCache we have reduced latency to milliseconds, improving application performance, eliminating maintenance overhead of self-managed to cache, and finally, scalability. ### 32. Elasticache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Managed Redis: - not having to manage own redis cluster - managed failover - availability across multiple regions - leaderboards with sorted lists, pub/sub for interserver comms **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** There is nothing that I dislike about Elasticache. Everything works properly. Access to Elasticache Redis is limited to different Redis Auth mechanisms and does not tie in to IAM roles and policies. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Elasticache Redis for pub/sub, caching, and data store. Using elasticache saves us time from having need to manage our own redis cluster. We leverage Redis for leaderboards, data caching, and pub sub for interserver communication ### 33. My experience about elasticache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PYAE PHYOE S. | DevOps Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The thing is to improve application performance and as it's managed service, we don't need to worry about maintenance issue. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Nothing much. But it would be great if to modify cache instance type, data should not be lost. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cache data always gone after changing cache instance type. ### 34. This is the key concept to make your website faster **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavin N. | Lead Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** We can create, update, delete elastic cache easily via API and it is very helpful to get accurate data everytime **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Generated large amount of cache is keeping large data size. Sometimes it is hard to take backup or generate again everything. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting data from cache rather than database it is most useful. Sometimes getting relational data is very hard to maintain in cache ### 35. Amazon ElasticCache really helpful for increasing high traffic product performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon ElasticCache with redis is really amazing and really fast. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It would be good if Amazon provide native free client tool that helps for managing ElasticCache redis data and filter easily. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** I am always recommending Amazon ElasticCache with redis options who using RDS relational database in high traffic application to cache data and use ElasticCache as much as instead of directly calling RDS. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** When using relational database in that case caching and fetching data from ElasticCache really improved the application product performance and end client experience. ### 36. Amazon ElasticCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Multiple options spending upon need. You can go with redis or memcached. Redis also comes in with Auth option **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** So far has been good. Nothing to dislike **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** Great option for secure data storage **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are saving a lot of state information in redis, which otherwise would have to be saved in other inefficient options. It is available at millisecond latency and redis can also be used as database for relatively smaller use cases. ### 37. Great service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to set up, stable, multiple architecture types **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Inability to connect outside of VPC, not all types are easy to scale **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Caching of high throughput data ### 38. I worked with manual backup and restore of Elasticache redis clusters cross region it easy to do. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** User interface and the automated backup options **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** The restore of the clusters takes a longer time **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducking latency by Cacheing the data ### 39. Managered Cache Service on AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to configure, easy to access, and following all Redis API standards. and you would have options between Memcache and Redis I can provision it through the cloud formation and CDK with code. The UI tools areprovided for user to review the performance and hit rates. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Expensive and not flexible on the instance size, it would be nice the size of the instance could be autoscaled. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We take the ElastiCache as a web cache layer to store temporary data and session data. We could reduce our persistence data access and increase the throughput. ### 40. Fast, fully managed, scalable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Set up speed, scalability, management console, and logging. Good experience overall in production. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Nothing really to dislike as pricing is actually for the underlying resources. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database schema cache, standard application caching usage. ### 41. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service provided by AWS; It is compatible with Redis and Memcached **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** No such dislikes for this service as of now **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using this coaching service, we have optimized the performance of Databases and Applications for end users. ### 42. Good service if you need to use managed Redis and are on the AWS Cloud. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The service worked reliably. I never had issues with Redis downtime with a four-node cluster that was heavily used. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** I would say price, but it does vary what kind of usage the services using Elasticache need. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to cache importing data and API responses which Elasticache handled well. ### 43. Good service for SW cache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor Z. | Senior DevOps Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** We are using Elastic Cache Redis, and like that, I can use it without managing the infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** That I can't get to Elastic Cache Redis logs **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it as SW cache to store temporary information from our PG database ### 44. Really fast fully managed in memory data storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Fully managed cache - we can use the caching without worry to backup or recovery process. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** The cost is high Learning curve - beginners will be find it hard to start with **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing real-time boards in memory to reduce latnecy. ### 45. It is great to experience Elasticache. easy to adapt and flexible. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** cloud infrastructure from AWS, this one is making it easier to access and the implementation makes really easy and centralised. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Costing sometimes might be an issue for starting the things but once we have infra ready, it's good. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing as such. ### 46. Boost the performance of our Redis cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not much modification required to move our existing redis cluster onto the Amazon ElastiCache. What I love the most is Multi-AZ failsafe architecture available to set up our Redis cluster here. Also it is very fast and easy to manage through the AWS console. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not complaining, but it feels the pricing structure for the usage is pretty high. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Initially we had our redis cluster set up on a single EC2 instance. Since it is a startup we couldn't afford a bigger instance at that time. So everyday during our peak times the instance used to fail due to overload. We had a trial run with moving the redis cluster to Amazon ElastiCache and use the multi-AZ failsafe architecture. Initially it was a 3 node failsafe architecture. Right out of the bat, it was a hit. We immediately moved our production cluster on to it and never got to worry about it any other day. ### 47. Excellent Managed in-memory data store service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maxwell D. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to set up, resilient and highly available. Option between Redis and Memcached is nice for devs who simply want a read-through cache to sit in front of DB. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Fully Managed is convenient, but sometimes you lose out on some visibility. For example, the Redis slowlog is not easily viewable from the aws console. You have to consistently poll it with a Redis client from say, a Lambda. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Boosting Database performance. Using Redis Pubsub for real-time applications. ### 48. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishmadeb M. | Manager | IT Infrastructure & Cloud | Technology | Managed Services , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon ElastiCache have two Cluster engine. One of redis and another is Memcached. Redis is In-memory data structure store used as database, cache and message broker. ElastiCache for Redis offers Multi-AZ with Auto-Failover and enhanced robustness. And Memcached is High-performance, distributed memory object caching system, intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications. In location perspective we can chose both Amazon or On-Premise location. Amazon ElastiCache provide date low latenchy date for customer. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Highly Cost for redis Multi-AZ replication. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** For latency & failover purpose its best. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** On-Premise elasticache setup. ### 49. Amazon ElastiCache is the best Serverless AWS Managed Caching Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdullah K. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The best thing about it is that it is AWS managed and we don't have to manage the server or anything and it also offers high availability. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It would have been better if a GUI based client on the AWS console is provided to interact with the AWS ElastiCache instance like Memcache or Redis. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** If you can afford a cloud based service for caching that you don't want to manage by yourself and want it to be highly available, then go for Amazon ElastiCache. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to cache more frequent data used that needs to be accessed very quickly and using it's highly availablity feature in the production environment to keep things fast and reliable. ### 50. CTO for multiple startups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos G. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to setup and clusterize Scalability **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Pricing for small instances. 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