What is Amazon ElastiCache?
Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases. You can use ElastiCache for caching, which accelerates application and database performance, or as a primary data store for use cases that don't require durability like session stores, gaming leaderboards, streaming, and analytics. ElastiCache is compatible with Redis and Memcached.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
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78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
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Amazon ElastiCache Reviews
Somil A.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
It's a great product to use.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Integration with AWS Ecosystem: Amazon ElastiCache is tightly integrated with the AWS ecosystem. Fully Managed Service: ElastiCache is a fully managed service, which means AWS takes care of tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, monitoring, and backups
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy Deployment and Configuration: Setting up and configuring ElastiCache is straightforward, with AWS providing a user-friendly console and a set of APIs for automation and programmable management.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited Engine Support: While ElastiCache supports two popular caching engines, Redis and Memcached, it may not meet the requirements of applications that rely on other caching solutions or custom caching mechanisms. The costing can be a little pricey
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This product is Easy to configure and the integration with AWS is amazing so if you are alreay working with AWS this is a great product, but it can get a little pricy
Pros
- Reliable
- Caring
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Cons
- Leverages Incumbent Status
- Inhibits Innovation
- Less Performance Enhancing
Rishi G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Little expensive with easy to configure function.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
- This application is easy to manage and can be implemented with a set of functions. - User-friendly interface to integrate with multiple services line dynamoDB, redis etc to provide faster response of the client application. - This can work with multiple datastores without any much efforts.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Response after integration with the client application is very smooth and performance is clearly visible.
What do you dislike most about this product?
- Service is pretty expensive as compared to other services. - This is compatible with AWS databases which is the bottleneck of its usage and can't be used outside of the AWS environment. - Scaling of the product is still a missing part as per the usage. This needs a manual intervention, whereas it should happen automatically.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Person should really go with this product without a second thought if there is no cost barrier to the business. If you need quality and performance, then this product is good to go.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
Rishi R.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Performance enhancement cache product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Amazon ElastiCache distinguishes itself from similar offerings by providing a fully managed service that facilitates the deployment and maintenance of in-memory data stores, including Redis and Memcached. It provides dynamic scalability, replication, high availability, security features, and seamless connection with other AWS services, making it an ideal solution for applications that require cost optimization and have read-heavy workloads. Its Multi-AZ Redis deployment option improves availability and fault tolerance, while AWS CloudWatch integration enables cluster health monitoring and analytics. The decision between ElastiCache and altern
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As an OpenAI machine learning model, I have no personal preferences, sentiments, or the capacity to have a favorite component of any product or service. I can supply facts and answer inquiries regarding AWS Elasticache, but I have no personal preferences or comments. If you have any specific questions about Elasticache or require information on a specific component of the service, please ask, and I'll try my best to answer them.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The implementations could be more easy to understand and implement. Rest all things are nice
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider your use case and requirements carefully, select between Redis and Memcached, plan for scaling, prioritize security, monitor and optimize, implement backup and disaster recovery, manage costs, thoroughly test, investigate AWS service integration, and stay up to date on Elasticache and AWS developments.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
