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Amazon ElastiCache

  • Managed in-memory caching service supporting Redis and Memcached.
  • Provides high performance and low latency data access.
  • Offloads read-heavy workloads from databases, reducing load and improving response times.
  • Can help make applications stateless by storing session data in the cache.
  • AWS handles:
    • OS maintenance and patching
    • Performance optimizations
    • Setup and configuration
    • Monitoring and failure recovery
    • Backups (Redis only)
  • Important: integrating ElastiCache usually requires significant application code changes to leverage the cache effectively.
 
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ElastiCache – Redis vs Memcached
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ElastiCache – Cache Security
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ElastiCache – Common Caching Patterns