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Category: Amazon ElastiCache

Optimize application memory usage on Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis and Amazon ElastiCache for Redis are in-memory data stores. While ElastiCache is commonly used as a cache, MemoryDB is a durable database designed for applications with high performance requirements. Customers love Redis as an in-memory data engine. As data used and accessed grows exponentially, making the most of the memory available […]

Unlocking JSON workloads with ElastiCache and MemoryDB

Application developers love Redis because it has a large and vibrant open source community, provides blazing-fast in-memory performance, and has a developer-friendly yet powerful API that provides native support for multiple data structures. These traits make Redis a great fit for building and running high-performance, scalable web applications. At AWS, we offer two fully-managed, Redis-based […]

Optimize Redis Client Performance for Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB

Redis users typically access a Redis service, such as Amazon ElastiCache or Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, using their choice of language-specific open source client libraries. These libraries are built and maintained by independent teams, with contributions from others including AWS. In this post, we share best practices for optimizing Redis client performance for popular Redis […]

Scale your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters with Auto Scaling

Caching is an integral part of today’s modern architecture. A cache is designed to store your most frequently used data to improve your application’s performance, and reduce burden on your primary data store. You can use a cache layer in a multitude of use cases, including web caching, session management, database caching, and more. As […]

How Near reduced latency by four times and achieved 99.9% uptime by migrating to Amazon ElastiCache

This is a guest post by Ashwin Nair, Director, Product Engineering at Near, in partnership with AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Kayalvizhi Kandasamy. For several years, Near operated multiple Kyoto Tycoon clusters for its real-time bidding (RTB) platform. To improve availability and reduce latency, Near migrated to Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed in-memory caching service. In […]

Replicate your data from Amazon Aurora MySQL to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis using AWS DMS

Caching enables the best user experience for real-time applications. You can build applications that provide sub-millisecond response times by storing the most frequently requested data in an in-memory cache like Redis. On August 30, 2021, we announced the support for migrating your data from supported sources to Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB […]

Amazon ElastiCache introduces support for Redis 6.2

In October 2020, we announced Redis 6 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. This update included significant features like role-based access control (RBAC), client-side caching, and several operational improvements designed to improve application availability and reliability. Specifically, Amazon ElastiCache improved replication under low memory conditions, especially for workloads with medium and large-sized keys, by reducing […]

Scale your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters at a lower cost with data tiering

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis provides a convenient way to manage Redis at scale. You can use it for a variety of workloads, ranging from caching, session stores, real-time analytics, gaming leaderboards, and messaging. We’re always looking for ways to increase price/performance for our customers. Some examples include releasing enhanced I/O handling, which increased the throughput […]

How Statsig runs 100x more cost-effectively using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

This post was written by guest authors, Rodrigo Roim, Marcos Arribas, and Anu Sharma from Statsig. Today, developers use feature gates to control feature roll out to manage the risk of bad deployments, but some remain blind to how customers would respond to a new feature. Statsig is a modern feature management and product experimentation […]