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Amazon ElastiCache

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

11 months

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How Amazon ElastiCache works
Amazon ElastiCache Demo - Amazon ElastiCache for Redis - Caching use case
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis - Caching use case
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hemang t.
HT
Senior Database Administrator
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to Use ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS ElastiCache is easy to implement with irrepctive redis and Memcached, sign in to AWS and spin the server as per the application requirement, Any time server can be upscaled and downscaled based on the requirement, and can create highly available clusters with multiple nodes, to manage the application traffic very efficiently, Creating the credential is too easy that we can create a group and create multiple users and assign with different roles. With the AWS Eco system, we can connect our ElastiCache server at any time from anywhere using an EC2 machine, while attaching top Security configuration. AWS ElastiCache provides a frequent snapshot facility for any event that happens so we can revert the changes—hassle-free version upgrade. AWS Support is Top-notch in the market. if we need any help related to infra, the AWS support team will be available 24/7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Run on the Default port, and not let us change it. nothing else was found in Elasticache clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Korla G.
KG
Open source contributor
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Elasti cache for college_app"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

Elasticache is fully managed cache service . I have integrated my app with dynamo dB and elasticache with redis caching engine which made my app super fast on the data that was frequently accessed . Elasticache supports hashes ,sets aswell this I loved most , without elasticache if I want to use caching on dynamo dB I would have used redis but that would be really difficult for me to deploy and maintain.

Simple and easy to setup

Dynamodb accelerator also does the same but it is specific to dynamo dB but elasticache can be used with multiple data stores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It is really expensive.

It is only compatible with AWS databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
EC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Worst Support in industry and talk about sercurity flaws in AWS..."
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

They offere verything at overpriced cost we did Elastic Serach hosting 10K a month moved away from aws cost is 800 a month at better perfomance, someone got access to a key at somepoint we rotated but the account kept getting comprosied and missused we raised 30 tickets to AWS no one care and end up us leaving as a billg over 60K came due to this, where as we didn't consume any of the 60K and again aws didn't care at all... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

If you like to pay 10X more for nothing, get no support or pay for a support that goes in circle go for AWS.... we moved to GCP instead which is 10X better... AWS wonder why people uses it? Burning VC money maybe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nir L.
NL
VP R&D
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple to use, serverless Key-Value storage"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

ElasticCache (for Redis) is simple to set up, reasonably priced, and very easy to use with modern development languages. The Redis version supports all the open-source features as well as clustering, upward scaling, and serverless architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It's hard to scale down if you need to, and the lowest scale is a bit pricey for smaller organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VS
Senior Engineer in Software Development
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One click relieve from operational overhead !!"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

What I love the most out of ElastiCache is no more operational overhead, my team don't have to manage anything beyond configuring the instance types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Not anything right at the moment , but it would be nice if it scales where based on the usage rather than manually configuring instance types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rachit M.
RM
Entity Non Officer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Elastic Cache Review"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS elastic cache helps the user boost web application performance by allowing them to obtain data faster from the in-memory cache. It reduces the database costs and thus the load on the backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS Elastic Cache is very expensive and not easily affordable by everyone. The default TTL is infinity. We cannot limit the client from accessing data stores via the AWS console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"AWS In-Memory Cache"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It has amazing performance and security features. Its amazingly scalable, and very easy to use when developing applications. You can very easily integrate and implement with your application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Cache is stored in primary storage instead of secondary, which makes it little time consuming. The default configurations give it TTL as infinite. Being part of AWS infrastructure, the biggest drawback is the time consuming nature of AWS Infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Gambling & Casinos
AG
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent for partitioning!"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It's basically the original redis while redis.io is a different product, not redis compatible without all it's features. elasticcache has all redis features, and all the clients fully supports it.

It had great partitioning support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

not much but a little bit expensive. consider using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sushil Kumar S.
SS
System administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon ElastiCache"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

AWS Redis Cache Gives us great performance for our open Source Moodle LMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

It is very expensive and difficult to afford in India. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael C.
MC
Senior Analyst Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Speedy solution for repeat requests"
What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?

It does what it says, response times have improved since implementing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?

Not a dislike but you need to understand its use cases and work with it. Things such as static pages are usually best left to cloudfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

11 months

Average Discount

7%

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