AWS — Amazon ElastiCache Overview
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3 min readOct 3, 2021
What is Amazon ElastiCache? — Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached).
TL;DR
Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached for most demanding applications that require sub-millisecond response time. It allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis built on open-source Redis and compatible with the Redis APIs.
- ElastiCache for Redis supports both cluster and non-cluster modes and provides high availability via support for automatic failover by detecting primary node failures and promoting a replica to be primary with minimal impact.
- Redis is a widely adopted in-memory data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue.
- Redis has publish and subscribe (pub/sub) capabilities where the client is informed of events on the server.
- Redis has back-up and restore capabilities.
- Redis supports complex data types, such as strings, hashes, lists, and sets.
- Redis sorts or ranks in-memory data-sets.
- Redis replicates the cache data from the primary to one or…
