Amazon ElastiCache 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Amazon ElastiCache

4.5

(2)

Pricing

Starting at $0.01 per month

About Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a cloud-based solution that helps businesses utilizing Redis and Memcached to manage internet-based web and mobile applications in gaming, eCommerce, healthcare, ad-tech, financial services and IoT industry. The auto-discovery functionality lets users connect an application to a single Memcached cluster endpoint to receive configuration details about other nodes.

Amazon ElastiCache enables staff members to generate usage metrics, track application trends and adjust cluster configuration. It lets employees optimize the availability and manageability of open-source Redis via intelligent swap memory management, automatic write throttling and failover enhancements. Additionally, it allows team members to handle secure internode communication and manage transit or at rest encryption, whilst maintaining compliance with PCI, HIPAA and FedRAMP guidelines.

Amazon ElastiCache allows administrators to provide a secure user experience by creating user groups and configuring role-based access rights. It is available for free and the monthly subscription is based on usage. It extends support via FAQs, documentation, video tutorials, and other online measures.

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Amazon ElastiCache Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.01 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.01

usage based, per month

No plan information available

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Amazon ElastiCache Features

Popular features found in Database
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
More features of Amazon ElastiCache
Access Controls/Permissions
API
Automated Discovery
Configuration Management
Data Recovery
Data Retrieval
Data Storage Management
Encryption
Issue Tracking
Monitoring
Multitenancy
NOSQL Database Management
OLAP
Patch Management
Performance Metrics
Real-Time Monitoring
Relational Database Management
Remote Monitoring & Management
Server Monitoring

Amazon ElastiCache Integrations

Amazon EC2

Amazon RDS

AWS Management Console

Amazon ElastiCache User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

50%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.5

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.0

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Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Fast and In Memory System

Adding elasticache service to your infrastructure is quite simple. Because it is compatible with Redis and Memcached, ElastiCache is extensively used, and you don't need to do anything extra to utilize it. ElastiCache is likely to be a drop-in replacement for Memcached if you already use it. You may still need to operate your own Redis/Memcached clusters for some of the more complex installations, though. It is amazing and improve the response time of the application vastly. Its highly recommended and it is integrated with cloud watch which is a plus and it is very easy for us to create alerts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Fully managed Redis and Memecached services on the cloud. - Scalable, easy to scale reads with replicas. - Integrated with cloud watch, easy to create alerts. - Fast and Secure. - Very easy to manage via console. - Same price policy, pay for what you run or use.

Cons:

So far there is nothing much to add here. Amazon Elasticache is simple, easy, cost effective.

Shaurya G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Efficient NOSQL datastore for improving application performance

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Response times from fetching data in elasticache makes our application highly performant. Greate support from AWS and good documentation available in the market to use this tool effectively

Cons:

Elasticache is extremely expensive. When calculating the cost acquired by AWS resources are calculated, Elasticache turns out to be the most expensive one. It is also difficult to debug the resource when created via cloudformation templates

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