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