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
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
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Amazon ElastiCache Reviews
Akarsh A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Amazing Management portal, Easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Easy to manage by AWS, Because Management is so easy and data we fetch easily by cache.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy to settle down the data in the storage of cache
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing was dislike here.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Better then redis, memcached give more capabilities, and elastic cache easy to handle in the management console of AWS.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Namrata Y.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Easy to use and best as per other cloud markets
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory cache environment in the cloud. It improves the performance of web applications by retrieving data from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Elasticsearch Pricing: It mainly depends on the instance types, the nature of workload (On-Demand Instances or Reserved Instances), and additional charges for optional features such as data transfer, data storage, and snapshots. You can check out the detailed pricing
What do you dislike most about this product?
You cannot limit the Client from accessing data stores via the AWS console. AWS infrastructure can be time-consuming. Most of the time, cache data is stored in the primary data store instead of the secondary. Default TTL is infinity
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon Elasticache provides a fast in-memory data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. It stores ephemeral data in memory and gives a sub-millisecond response. Elasticache is used in real-time transactions, chat, BI and analytics, session store, gaming leaderboards, and cache
Pros
- Effective Service
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Less Performance Enhancing
Michael N.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Amazon Moving Forward
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
mazon ElastiCache allows for easy scaling of cache capacity up or down, as needed, to accommodate changes in application traffic. Amazon ElastiCache is a cost-effective solution as it allows users to pay only for the cache capacity they use, with no upfront costs or long-term commitments.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon ElastiCache provides an easy-to-use management console and a command-line interface that allows for easy management of cache clusters and nodes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Amazon ElastiCache may have certain limitations or features that some users might find challenging to work with. Some users have reported that the cost of using the service can be high, particularly for high-memory cache nodes. Additionally, some users have found the service's documentation and learning resources to be difficult to navigate or not as comprehensive as they would like.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon ElastiCache provides a wide range of learning resources, including tutorials and documentation. Take the time to learn how to use the service effectively and how to optimize the cache for your specific use-case.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
