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Amazon ElastiCache

Serverless, fully managed caching service delivering microsecond latency with Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS compatibility

Why Amazon ElastiCache?

ElastiCache Serverless offers zero infrastructure management, zero downtime maintenance, and instant scaling to match any application demand. As a fully managed service, ElastiCache removes undifferentiated heavy lifting of caching administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, monitoring, backup and recovery. It speeds up databases, data lakes, analytics, generative AI, and application performance, scaling to hundreds of millions of operations per second with microsecond latency. ElastiCache offers full-compatibility with Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS so you can move to a managed solution with minimal to no application code changes. For multi-Region applications, ElastiCache Global Datastore offers local reads through fully managed, cross-Region replication. ElastiCache provides leading security (Amazon VPC, AWS IAM) and compliance standards (HIPAA eligible, FedRAMP authorized, and PCI DSS).

Benefits of ElastiCache

Microsecond latency

Speed up databases, data lakes, analytics, generative AI, and application performance, and scale to hundreds of millions of operations per second with microsecond latency while reducing costs.

Remove operational burden

Streamline your cache with serverless capabilities that offer zero infrastructure management, zero downtime maintenance, and instant scaling to any application demand.

Enterprise-level security

Trust in comprehensive security with encryption at-rest and in-transit, access controls with AWS IAM, and defense-in-depth protection with network isolation from Amazon VPC and private endpoints.

Improve business continuity

Achieve up to 99.99% availability with multi-AZ deployments and bolster disaster recovery with cross-Region replication.

Valkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-compatible

Build applications quickly using popular open source Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS APIs.

Use cases

Lower total cost of ownership by easing backend database load

Cache your data and offload database I/O to reduce operational burden, lower costs, and improve database and application performance.

Real-time application data caching

Store frequently used data in memory for microsecond response times and high throughput to support hundreds of millions of operations per second.

Real-time session stores

Store ephemeral session data to quickly personalize gaming, e-commerce, social media, and online applications with microsecond response times.

Real-time leaderboards

Simplify application development with ElastiCache built-in data structures.

Get started with ElastiCache

Training

Explore the basics of creating and using Redis and Memcached clusters

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Guide

Check out the ElastiCache user guides for your specific engine

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