Amazon ElastiCache customers

"We have built a significant portion of our store infrastructure on AWS leveraging Amazon ElastiCache. The use of ElastiCache has substantially enhanced performance and stability, while simultaneously reducing maintenance overhead. As part of our ongoing efforts to improve performance and optimize maintenance expenditures, we upgraded from ElastiCache for Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey. The team experienced a smooth upgrade resulting in cost optimization of up to 30% and a 20% improvement in performance."

Sumit Kumar, Sr. Director Cloud Engineering - Firstcry

"We are always looking to maximize savings without sacrificing performance and our seamless upgrade from Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey was a game-changer, helping us achieve zero downtime through a frictionless transition. By harnessing ElastiCache for Valkey’s efficiency and AWS Reserved Instances, we slashed per-node costs by up to 50% and our workloads scaled effortlessly with uncompromised resilience. This upgrade wasn’t just about cost reduction, it was about smarter, high-performance caching for the future."

Hitesh Sharma, Director, SRE - Gupshup

"Our primary objective has been to substantially boost the performance of our web applications and data serving tiers to enhance internal processes and customer-facing applications. Upgrading from Redis OSS to Valkey on Amazon ElastiCache was seamless and has significantly improved our cost efficiency and operational flexibility. Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey has met our caching needs and has played a crucial role in enhancing our system's performance and reliability."

Shailesh Patel, Lead Software Architect - Lookout, Inc.

"Amazon ElastiCache has been a critical service for Navan for several years. When Valkey became available on ElastiCache, we wanted to upgrade our entire Redis OSS fleet, including Global Datastores spanning multiple regions, to Valkey to optimize costs and benefit from open source innovations. The upgrade took just a few weeks with zero service downtime for our customers and no required changes on the client side. The performance gains have been significant, and we are looking forward to new developments from the Valkey community."

Javier Ramos, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Navan

"We use ElastiCache to power our website platform so customers can connect with their neighbors reliably and effortlessly. We recently upgraded over 800+ nodes from ElastiCache for Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey, which has enabled us to significantly lower our overall operating costs. With ElastiCache for Valkey, we are able to leverage the benefits of a managed service coupled with the high performance and flexibility of Valkey."

Cory Dolphin, Head of Software Engineering - Nextdoor

"Amazon ElastiCache has been a critical part of OfferUp's techstack for over 10 years. Our ElastiCache clusters continue to be one of the secret ingredients for how OfferUp scales without sacrificing performance or escalating costs. As part of our ongoing efforts to optimize cost, we're upgrading and right-sizing all of our ElastiCache clusters to Valkey and the transition has been seamless. Since we began our upgrade in December 2024, we've reduced our ElastiCache spend by 27% with more to come."

Alex Neginsky, VP of Engineering - OfferUp

"Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey delivered exceptional value while maintaining a seamless developer experience. By upgrading from our previous caching solution to ElastiCache for Valkey, we achieved about 30% cost savings without introducing any developer friction or operational overhead. The upgrade was remarkably smooth and we've maintained complete feature parity while reducing our infrastructure expenses. What impressed us most was how the entire transition was transparent to our engineering teams, allowing them to focus on building features rather than adapting to a new system."

Arjun Hariharan, Principal Engineer - Pocket FM

"Our Endpoint Command Invocation Service governs the invocation of commands on Rapid7 software deployed by our customers. We have been using Amazon ElastiCache for five years and recently upgraded to Valkey to improve performance and cost. We have seen an average 40% reduction in latency in our most frequently used operations and an immediate 21.6% reduction in daily costs for the clusters we upgraded."

Elaine Hardwick, Senior Director Platform Engineering - Rapid7

"Our aim has always been to deliver fast and reliable services to our users. We identified an opportunity to enhance cost efficiency and system performance by upgrading from Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey. The process was completed in a single day and required no changes on the client side. This upgrade has empowered us to leverage the robust features and capabilities of ElastiCache for Valkey, aligning perfectly with our commitment to providing an exceptional user experience."

Hanyong Cho, Lead Backend Engineer - Scatter Lab

"In our relentless pursuit to elevate the customer experience while optimizing costs, we made a strategic move transitioning all our Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS clusters to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey by leveraging the built-in seamless upgrade process. The results have been remarkable - we've achieved a 40% reduction in costs while maintaining, and in some cases, even enhancing our performance standards."

Vivek Garg, AVP engineering - Swiggy

"To address performance challenges and maintenance costs, the Tubi ML Infrastructure team initially migrated from ScyllaDB to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS. We seamlessly migrated over 100 feature tables, and successfully achieved our acceptable performance ceiling of sub-10ms latency at the 99th percentile with exceptional stability. ElastiCache's rich data structures enabled us to efficiently support a wide range of feature retrieval patterns. More recently, we upgraded from ElastiCache for Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey, which was remarkably smooth, facilitated by a Terraform one-command process, and resulted in a 20% cost reduction. ElastiCache has proven to be indispensable in our infrastructure, significantly enhancing both performance and stability, while lowering maintenance cost. The continuous and invaluable feedback from the AWS team throughout this process greatly contributed to our success."

Zhenglai Zhang, Senior Manager of Engineering - Tubi

"We use ElastiCache for Redis as a shared cache to an auto-scaling group of EC2 instances for our API management Platform, to get high availability and low latency. We wanted to have atomic increments as well as sorted sets. We were also concerned about availability and read performance across Multiple AZs. Because of these needs, we chose ElastiCache for Redis."

Frank Weibe, Principal Scientist - Adobe

"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

Amazon GameOn Achieves Ultra-Low Latency, Simple Change Processes Using Amazon DynamoDB and ElastiCache.

“Amazon Music Feature Repository (MFR) is a fully managed ML feature store utilized to store, share, and manage ML features to power personalization. MFR supports high throughput at low latency for online inference and is used repeatedly by dozens of teams across Amazon Music to maintain a consistent personalized experience. ElastiCache provides low latency storage and retrieval for 1 TB of ML features and is simple for the MFR team to manage for peak traffic. MFR with ElastiCache raises the bar for consuming teams with strict latency requirements by delivering batches of ML features at low latencies across North America, European Union and Far East regions (Music Search, Voice/Echo).”

David Follmer, Software Development Manager - Amazon Music

Cathay Pacific took advantage of Amazon ElastiCache to provide in-memory data caching to speed up web application performance and Amazon S3 for storing the site’s static imagery. 

"For startup companies, time is really important. Not needing to perform management tasks, provision hardware, check software patches, and maintain infrastructure gives us a lot more time to work on our ideas and our algorithms. One of the greatest features of ElastiCache is that it is very quickly up to date with the latest stable versions of Redis. It enables us to scale out easily, while still having that magic layer of redundancy in case things go wrong. It’s empowering when we, as engineers, can spin up a new Redis instance in minutes without having to think about maintenance, and we can rely on a hardened version of Redis."

Daniel Pyrathon and David O'Steen, Senior Machine Learning Engineer and Data Team Lead - Coffee Meets Bagel

"Thousands of global-leading companies use the Coralogix Log Analytics service to power their businesses. Because of the criticality of this data and our customers’ desire to both increase uptime and decrease troubleshooting time, we selected and rely on Amazon ElastiCache for Redis for our caching and pub/sub needs on over 100 terabytes of data every day."

Yoni Farin, CTO & co-founder - Coralogix

"We evaluated multiple options available on the market, including other managed services and improvements to our self-hosted infrastructure. After this evaluation, we opted for ElastiCache for Redis because ElastiCache has the following features:

• Managed service benefits
• Simple pricing
• Open-source compatibility
• Drop-in replacement for existing workloads
• Reduced maintenance (multiple hosted Redis clusters can be replaced with one ElastiCache for Redis cluster)
• Ease of operations like upgrades and vertical scaling

Security was another major factor in our decision to adopt ElastiCache. At Coupa, it’s important that our application remains FedRAMP compliant. Instead of building out a separate, self-managed cache in house to ensure that our Redis workloads are compliant, we opted to move our Redis workloads to ElastiCache, which is already FedRAMP authorized."

Ramesh Sencha, Lead Cloud Software Engineer - Coupa

DBS Bank Ltd. (DBS) is a financial services group in Asia that offers innovative financial services to support a wide range of customers, including trading companies. 

“Previously, setting up an on-premises infrastructure was a painful task that involved tedious resource acquisition and lengthy provisioning activities. It would take months forthe infrastructure to be ready to use. On AWS, it can be done in 1 minute.”

Gengpu LiuExecutive, Director of Quant and Tech Modeling, Treasury and Markets Business - DBS Bank Ltd.

"Why did we choose ElastiCache for Redis? Two words: Sorted sets. The major reason to go with Redis is sorted sets. We can never stop praising how awesome sorted sets are. Because Redis has a fine implementation of sorted sets, there isn’t a better caching store in comparison. ElastiCache provides a well-managed Redis out of the box, making it easy to maintain a Redis cluster within your VPC. Therefore, it was the obvious choice."

Bharat Kumar, Director for Backend Engineering - Dream11

"We use Elasticache to reduce latency and we use it as a cache layer on top of our more permanent data store.”

Karin Tsai, Senior Software Engineer - Duolingo

"We use ElastiCache Redis for an application that collects data for our test & learn experiments, processing ~200 million messages a day. We are using DynamoDB as a main data-store, fronting it with ElastiCache Redis. With ElastiCache Redis we were able to decrease our provisioned DynamoDB capacity by 90%, reducing total database cost by 6x. It is fully managed and offers us benefits such as convenient metrics as well as Multi-AZ. While we haven’t had the need to fall back to a read replica yet, it is great to know that if something goes bad, we will have the read replica automatically promoted to mitigate the impact on our application."

Kuldeep Chowhan, Engineering Manager - Expedia

"At Genesys, we use Amazon ElastiCache to power high-throughput, low-latency storage for our cloud customer experience platform, enabling millions of customer interactions per day."

Rob Gevers, Chief Architect - Genesys

HBO Max is a direct-to-consumer streaming platform available in 61 countries that offers best-in-class quality entertainment. HBO Max uses Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to deliver ultra-fast, device-specific landing pages to their subscribers, manage seasonal spikes from highly anticipated worldwide releases, and realize significant cost savings. In this re:Invent session, learn how HBO Max uses ElastiCache to cost-effectively scale and delight more than 76 million subscribers around the world.

"We use ElastiCache to cache search results of the HERE Geocoder API, a web service that finds an address or resolves a geo-location into an address. The HERE Geocoder API serves more than 400 million requests a day. Using ElastiCache significantly reduces average response times which are critical to our consumer, automotive and enterprise users. At the same time we reduced operational costs by shifting load from expensive CPU-optimized instances to lower cost cache node instances."

Wiebke Krasting, Principal Architect - HERE

Hulu built Live TV service and Cloud DVR platform on AWS using Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Aurora and more.

In December 2017, LG Electronics launched ThinQ to embed Wi-Fi chips in LG products, which allows these products to communicate with each other while learning about their user’s behavioral patterns and environments. The ThinQ platform also stores data in Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon DynamoDB, which provide historical data for services. To date, LG has sold more than 70 million smart TVs and five million home appliances around the globe. 

“With the previous infrastructure, we retrieved data directly from devices to get status information. Now, the Device Shadow Service feature for AWS IoT enables the system to cache the status information from the server. This feature has made it possible to deliver better service consistency. By using AWS for our IoT platform, we saved 80 percent in development cost. It also enabled developers to focus on writing business logic for LG service scenarios.”

Kunwoo Kim, chief of the Service Development Team - LG Cloud Center

McDonald’s uses a number of AWS services including Amazon EC2 and Amazon ElastiCache to support its global point-of-sale system.

MYCOM OSI offers assurance, automation, and analytics software as a service (SaaS) applications for the digital era. MYCOM OSI migrated its Assurance Cloud Service™ application, which provides critical end-to-end performance, fault, and service quality management and supports AI and machine learning (ML)-driven closed-loop assurance, from self-managed Redis to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

"As part of our strategic relationship with AWS, we efficiently collaborated and arrived at our production-grade design and migration strategy. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis improves on the observability, manageability, reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our self-managed option. It simplified our security compliance, opened up the option to easily move into cross-Region replication architectures, and helped us realize cost-optimization targets by moving into AWS Graviton2 instances."

Dirk Michel, SVP of SaaS Technology & Solutions Architecture - MYCOM OSI

"We chose ElastiCache because we needed a fully managed and highly scalable distributed Redis cluster for numerous microservices. For example, our authentication service is based on access tokens stored in ElastiCache for Redis. Because every API call requires authentication, this service handles a huge amount of traffic per second and requires sub-millisecond performance. ElastiCache for Redis makes this possible."

Shilei Long, Senior Software Architect - PayPay Corporation

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.

"ElastiCache allows Rokt to handle our dataset’s hyper growth without impacting our clients’ user experience. Given the nature of our workload, ElastiCache data tiering is perfect for us, allowing us to continue our growth at a fraction of the price with virtually unnoticeable performance impact. AWS enables Rokt to focus on product innovation rather than rethink underlying infrastructure, which is paramount as leaders in the e-commerce technology space."

Corey Bertram, Chief Technology Officer - Rokt

Samsung SmartThings is a home automation platform enabling customers to easily connect and control smart home devices.

“Amazon ElastiCache is a critical piece of our architecture to process a high volume of home automation requests daily, and we need to ensure that the cache always has adequate capacity. The difficulty in right-sizing for sudden and unpredictable traffic changes often meant that we ended up overprovisioning. With ElastiCache Serverless, we no longer worry about cluster scaling and optimizing its costs—it just works.”

Khang Nguyen, vice president of Cloud Platforms - SmartThings

"Prior to our migration from a traditional data center to AWS, we handled all our user and API session management within our transactional database. Although moving from traditional MySQL to Amazon Aurora greatly improved our system performance and reliability, within a month of our AWS migration, we decided to move all our session management activity to ElastiCache for Redis and immediately saw a 10x improvement in performance. We’ve been running ElastiCache for the last 2 years and it is something that we don’t even think about anymore, as it has been 100% reliable and highly performant since we put it in service."

Clark Huang, Chief Technology Officer - sticky.io

Tapjoy's mobile app network spans over 9,000 applications and 250 million global consumers on smartphones and tablet devices.

"We cache real-time statistics and metadata associated with mobile applications for faster access. Amazon ElastiCache has significantly reduced our exposure to Cache Node failures by continuously monitoring the health of our cache cluster and automatically replacing failed nodes. We are very thrilled about the management capabilities of Amazon ElastiCache and are using it in production to power some of our mission-critical and very high throughput applications."

Ryan Johns, Vice President of Technology - Tapjoy

"One part of our business is real time bidding - therefore we are not only responsive, but also very careful to manage product costs effectively. ElastiCache Redis provides a very easy way to save money - by reducing our database queries up to 95% with simple caching. In addition, we are also able to speed up our entire processing with just a few additional lines of code. The fully managed solution enables our team to focus on the product itself and so we're able to build great products for our customers. We are very happy with the ElastiCache service and would like to try to implement it wherever possible in all our solutions."

Markus Ostertag, Head of Development - Team Internet

Tinder is the world's most popular app for meeting new people. It has been downloaded more than 340 million times, available in 190 countries and 40+ languages, and had nearly 5.7 million subscribers as of Q3 2019. In this blog post, explore the motivation and migration strategy Tinder used for adopting Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to achieve immediate gains in scalability and stability.

"United Airlines, one of the largest airlines globally, relies on a centralized machine learning platform with a feature store at its core. The airline utilizes machine learning models to deliver personalized experiences to customers. With a significant customer base generating millions of daily requests and strict service level agreement requirements for quick response times, selecting the right feature store was crucial. United Airlines selected ElastiCache as its online feature store for serving real-time traffic due to its ability to provide ultra-low latency for millions of customers.Since features need to be constantly available in-memory and have the latest values for accurate predictions by the ML models, they are stored in a feature store.  ElastiCache verifies that these features are updated as frequently as possible, enabling accurate predictions. An advantage of using ElastiCache is its support for global data stores, allowing the ML model to serve traffic from across multiple AWS Regions. This capability provides a robust and fail-safe plan to serve customers and offer personalized recommendations, such as selecting the right destination or finding the appropriate products during the check-in process. We recommend ElastiCache for real-time traffic scenarios where low latency is essential for serving data efficiently."

Guillermo Garcia, Senior Manager ML Engineering & Kumar Gaurav, Senior Solution Architect - United Airlines

Wiz helps organizations create secure cloud environments to rapidly identify and remove critical risks. In this blog post, learn how Amazon ElastiCache for Redis helped reduce Wiz's total costs by 30%, improve overall application performance, and right-size its database instances.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company connecting people to their passions. It reaches almost a billion people worldwide, bringing them closer to what they love - from finance and commerce to gaming and news - with trusted products, content, and tech. In this re:Invent session, learn how Yahoo uses Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and data tiering to process more than 1.3 million advertising data events per second to save up to 50% on their bill and achieve ultra-fast speed at scale.

Having the freedom to explore and experiment—we can do so much more today running on AWS as we deliver against our mission to connect the world through games. Using AWS allows Zynga to focus on developing great games, investing in product innovation, and improving player experiences.

"We use ElastiCache as a core component in our distributed data collection systems that analyze over seven million paid search advertisements a day to protect our customers from brand and trademark abuse by their affiliates and competitors. We had been running Memcached on EC2 but switched to ElastiCache because it freed us from the need to manage our own cache infrastructure. Since ElastiCache is Memcached-compatible, all we had to do to transition was update the cache node endpoints in our system configuration. ElastiCache delivers excellent performance while ensuring our cache nodes remain highly available."

Andy Skalet, CTO - BrandVerity

"We use ElastiCache to cache the user data and maps in ArcGIS, our collaborative web-based mapping application," said , the world's largest provider of Geographic Information Systems software. "ElastiCache is fully-managed and Memcached-compatible which made it easy to integrate, deploy, and monitor a multi-node cache cluster in our production environment. ElastiCache reduced the load on our databases and enabled our service to remain responsive to users, even in the face of rapidly growing traffic."

Andrea Rosso, Senior Architect - Esri

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.

"Amazon ElastiCache will make it very easy for PBS to deploy and manage our distributed Memcached environment. We can have multi-node cache environments configured, up and running in minutes. Amazon ElastiCache also takes care of ongoing administrative functions including failure recovery and patching, allowing us to focus more on delivering great web experiences to our viewers."

Jon Brendsel, Vice President of Product Development - PBS

​​​SmugMug is a hosting and ecommerce platform for photographers.

“With Amazon ElastiCache Serverless, we can instantly scale as our application traffic increases by creating a serverless cache and connecting to a single endpoint. We no longer need to worry about managing the complexities of proxies, availability, scaling, upgrades, or data replication across multiple Availability Zones. ElastiCache Serverless enables our developers to get started quickly, get to production faster, and operate at our scale without any manual intervention.”

Don MacAskill, CEO and Chief Geek - SmugMug and Flickr