Amazon ElastiCache resources

Technical documentation and getting started guide that describes all Amazon ElastiCache concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.

Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners.

A series of hands-on tutorial to help you get started and learn more about Amazon ElastiCache.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an ElastiCache cluster with TLS-encryption enabled. With cluster mode enabled, your Redis Cluster gains enhanced scalability and high availability.

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Amazon ElastiCache as a distributed cache for session management. You will also learn the best practices for configuring your ElastiCache nodes and how to handle the sessions from your application.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to boost the performance of your applications by adding an in-memory caching layer to your relational database. You will implement a cache-aside strategy, a popular option for boosting database performance, using Amazon ElastiCaches on top of a MySQL database.

Provides a high-level overview of AWS DMS concepts. Includes instructions on migrating data and replicating ongoing changes from relational databases, data warehouses, and other types of data stores in the AWS Cloud.

Step-by-step guidance for migrating data in real-time on cluster-mode disabled configuration.

Learn how to perform an offline migration.

This interface reference contains documentation for a programming or CLI you can use to manage Amazon ElastiCache. It provides all the Amazon ElastiCache CLI commands, syntax, and examples of common commands. 

Amazon ElastiCache allows you to use a simple set of web services APIs to create, delete, and modify instances. You can control access and instance security and manage database backups and snapshots.

IDC found that interviewed organizations achieved significant value from using Amazon ElastiCache to manage the real-time performance of applications. Through reduced costs, greater staff efficiencies, and business enablement, IDC calculated that interviewed organizations achieved a total average annual benefit of $3.9 million per year, resulting in a three-year ROI of 449%.

This e-book is a guide to using Valkey, which is an open source fork of the last available Redis OSS v7.2. Valkey is ideal for customers who want a proven high-performance, open source cache as Redis Ltd removed open source (BSD) licensing in March 2024. We provide a brief background on caching and when to use it. Then, we quickly dive deep on core data modeling patterns, resource optimization, and advanced data types and patterns.