Category: Amazon ElastiCache

This is a guest post by Ramesh Sencha, Lead Cloud Engineer at Coupa. Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP) is a leader in Business Spend Management (BSM). Coupa enables companies around the world with the visibility and control they need to spend smarter and safer. Coupa offers value to over 2,000 customers across the globe as a […]

May 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In this post, we cover best practices for interacting with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS resources with commonly used open-source Valkey or Redis OSS client libraries. ElastiCache is compatible with open-source Valkey and Redis OSS up to version 7.2. Redis OSS clients are compatible with […]

Ready to get started with Amazon ElastiCache? Introducing the new learning path Amazon ElastiCache: In-memory data store fundamentals, use cases, and examples. ElastiCache is a managed in-memory caching service compatible with Redis and Memcached, enabling you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale in-memory data stores in the cloud. In this new learning path, follow […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible, fully managed caching service. ElastiCache for Redis helps you achieve extreme performance with microsecond latency at cloud scale with minimal management costs. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure Cross-Region Replication. With Global Datastore, you can write to […]

This is a guest post by Dirk Michel, SVP, SaaS Technology & Solutions Architecture at MYCOM OSI, in partnership with AWS Solutions Architect Specialist, Zach Gardner. MYCOM OSI offers assurance, automation, and analytics software as a service (Saas) applications for the digital era. The Assurance Cloud Service provides critical end-to-end performance, fault and service quality […]

This is a guest post co-written by Bharat Kumar, Graph Databases Lead at Dream11. Dream11, the flagship brand of Dream Sports, is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, with more than 100 million users. We have infused the latest technologies of analytics, machine learning, social networks, and media technologies to enhance user experience. Dream11 is […]

We had a great time at RedisConf 2021. AWS was proud to participate as a platinum sponsor this year. Thanks to those of you who joined us at the conference—we enjoyed seeing you there virtually! This year, our Amazon ElastiCache experts led five sessions focused on technical deep dives on Redis, best practices for ElastiCache, […]

This is a guest post by Sergey Podlazov – Director of Engineering (Shopping Experience) at Zulily, Senthil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS, and Praveen Chamarthi, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog […]

October 2022: This post was reviewed and updated with a new architecture diagram and code updates to factor the change from CDK 1.x to CDK 2.x. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is an AWS managed, Redis-compliant service that provides a high-performance, scalable, and distributed key-value data store that you can use as a database, cache, message […]

Customers often use Amazon ElastiCache for real-time transactional and analytical use cases. It provides high throughout and low latencies, while meeting a variety of business needs. Because it uses in-memory data structures, typical use cases include database and session caching, as well as leaderboards, gaming and financial trading platforms, social media, and sharing economy apps. […]