Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud. Build data-intensive apps or boost the performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores. Amazon ElastiCache is a popular choice for real-time use cases like Caching, Session Stores, Gaming, Geospatial Services, Real-Time Analytics, and Queuing.
Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis, voted the most loved database by developers in the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey, and Memcached for your most demanding applications that require sub-millisecond response times.
Benefits
Extreme performance
Amazon ElastiCache works as an in-memory data store and cache to support the most demanding applications requiring sub-millisecond response times. By utilizing an end-to-end optimized stack running on customer dedicated nodes, Amazon ElastiCache provides secure, blazing fast performance.
Fully managed
You no longer need to perform management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, monitoring, failure recovery, and backups. ElastiCache continuously monitors your clusters to keep your workloads up and running so that you can focus on higher value application development.
Scalable
Amazon ElastiCache can scale-out, scale-in, and scale-up to meet fluctuating application demands. Write and memory scaling is supported with sharding. Replicas provide read scaling.
Amazon ElastiCache Engines
How it works
Use cases
Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy to setup, manage, and scale in-memory data stores in the cloud and power real-time transactional and analytical processing use cases such as caching, session store, machine learning, and real-time analytics.
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Caching
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Session store
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Machine Learning (AI/ML)
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Real-time analytics
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Caching
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Amazon ElastiCache can be used as a highly available in-memory cache to decrease access latency, increase throughput and ease the load off your relational or NoSQL database, with sub-millisecond response times for either Redis or Memcached engines. Additionally, ElastiCache for Redis can deliver query results caching, persistent session caching, and full-page caching.
Learn how to build a caching application with ElastiCache for Redis »
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Session store
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Amazon ElastiCache can be used as a session store to manage session information for both Redis and Memcached. This session management is commonly required for online applications, including games, e-commerce websites and social media platforms.
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Machine Learning (AI/ML)
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Amazon ElastiCache for Redis gives you a fast in-memory data store to help you build and deploy machine learning models quickly. Use ElastiCache for Redis in use cases such as fraud detection in gaming and financial services, real-time bidding in Ad tech, and matchmaking in dating and ride sharing to process live data and make decisions within tens of milliseconds.
Learn how Coffee Meets Bagel uses ElastiCache for real-time machine learning-based recommendations »
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Real-time analytics
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Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with streaming solutions such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis as an in-memory data store to ingest, process, and analyze real-time data with sub-millisecond latency. ElastiCache can be used for real-time analytics uses cases such as social media, ad targeting, personalization, IoT and time-series data analytics.
Customers
Learn how The Pokémon Company moved user caching to Amazon ElastiCache, taking advantage of both Redis and Memcached. Redis queues tasks for new users, so they can be prompted to complete post-authentication tasks such as accepting terms and conditions. Memcached helps keep tickets live so that existing users’ sessions are not interrupted when new users join.
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In-home fitness company Peloton relies on Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to power its on-demand, live leaderboard. Peloton’s leaderboard requires high elasticity, low latency, and real-time processing to deliver customizable rider data for the community of users riding together virtually from the comfort of their home.
"Managed services like ElastiCache let us focus on the core of our business. Our operations team consists of only two full time engineers. Running a site like Airbnb with such a small team would be impossible without services like ElastiCache. Spinning up and maintaining nodes in our cluster is fast and easy."
Tobi Knaup, Technical Lead – Airbnb
Watch Airbnb's journey from self-managed Redis to ElastiCache for Redis »
"ElastiCache for Redis online resharding will allow us to easily scale our Redis clusters horizontally as we grow, greatly simplifying the management of our many Redis clusters, empowering us to scale quickly while also reducing cost across our caching layers, and continue to grow with minimal changes to our current services”.
Max Blaze, Staff Operations Engineer - Duolingo
MLBAM uses Amazon ElastiCache to temporarily store game information in memory caches instead of on hard drives, which enables fast retrieval of the data for analysis tasks.
