Amazon ElastiCache Infographic
AWS Cloud Performance

Amazon ElastiCache

Accelerate your application response times to sub-millisecond latency by offloading database pressure.

The Core Engines

Choose the right tool for your specific caching requirements

Redis

Advanced Data Structures

  • Supports complex data types (Lists, Sets, Hashes)
  • Persistence & High Availability (Replication)
  • Pub/Sub messaging and Geospatial support
  • Atomic operations and Multi-AZ failover

Memcached

Simple & Multi-threaded

  • Optimized for simple Key-Value pairs
  • Multi-threaded architecture for vertical scaling
  • Extremely low overhead for large datasets
  • Simple to set up and horizontally scale

How It Works: Cache-Aside Pattern

Reducing database load by intercepting frequent read requests.

Application

Requests data from the system

ELASTICACHE

1. Check Cache

Cache Hit? → Return Fast

2. Cache Miss

Fetch from DB & Update Cache

Sub-ms Latency

Extreme speed for real-time apps

Easy Scaling

Scale in/out, up/down with ease

Fully Managed

No patching, backups, or setup

Cost Efficient

Reduce DB costs by offloading reads

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