Tag: Amazon ElastiCache

As you may already know, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)‘s new T2 instance type provides a solid level of baseline performance and the ability to burst above the baseline as needed. As I wrote in my blog post, these instances are ideal for development, testing, and medium-traffic web sites. Today we are bringing the […]

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy an in-memory cache in the cloud using the Memacached or Redis engines. Today we are launching a new flexible node placement model for ElastiCache. Your Memcached Cache Clusters can now span multiple Availability Zones within a Region. This will help to improve the reliability of the […]

You can use Amazon ElastiCache to add a scalable caching layer to your application. As you may already know, you can use ElastiCache to create a Memcached or Redis Cache Cluster comprised of one or more Cache Nodes. Today we are making ElastiCache even more flexible by adding support for two new types of Cache […]

You can use Amazon ElastiCache to implement an in-memory storage layer between your application code and your database using the Memcached or Redis engines. Adding an in-memory storage layer can often lead to dramatic speed improvements for database accesses. Regardless of which engine you choose, ElastiCache makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale a […]

It is always fun to write about price reductions. I enjoy knowing that our customers will find AWS to be an even better value over time as we work on their behalf to make AWS more and more cost-effective over time. If you’ve been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know […]

Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to create, operate, and scale an in-memory cache. Because ElastiCache contains support for the Memcached and Redis engines, it is compatible with a wide variety of existing applications. I’m happy to announce that ElastiCache now supports version 2.8.6 of Redis and that you can start using it today: […]

To build on the recent launch of AWS ElastiCache for Redis, Development Manager Enno Brehm sent me a guest post to show you how to set it up for use in AWS Opsworks. — Jeff; With the launch of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis it is now easier than ever to use Redis with your AWS […]

We launched Amazon ElastiCache about two years ago, and have steadily added features ever since. In the last two years we have added auto discovery, additional cache node types, and reserved cache nodes. We’ve reduced prices several times and we have added support for additional AWS Regions and VPC. Today we are taking a big […]