--- title: Amazon ElastiCache Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon ElastiCache Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 88 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon ElastiCache works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 88 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Amazon ElastiCache Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon ElastiCache but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon ElastiCache team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store and cache in the cloud. Often working in conjunction with other AWS database and storage services, ElastiCache ensures modern applications meet real-time requirements for high data throughput and sub-milli second response times, while serving millions of simultaneous requests. Amazon ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory engines: o Redis - a fast, open source, in-memory data store and cache. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible in-memory service that delivers the ease-of-use and power of Redis along with the availability, reliability and performance suitable for the most demanding applications. ElastiCache for Redis is fully managed, scalable, and secure - making it an ideal candidate to power high-performance use cases such as Web, Mobile Apps, Gaming, Ad-Tech, and IoT. o Memcached - a widely adopted memory object caching system. Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached is protocol compliant with Memcached, so popular tools that you use today with existing Memcached environments will work seamlessly with the service. ElastiCache for Memcached is suitable for caching use cases where performance and concurrency is important. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon ElastiCache Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elasticache/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 11 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elasticache/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Redis Cloud](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Redis Cloud") Redis Cloud 4.6/5(44) ](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-cloud/reviews) [ ![SAP HANA Cloud](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP HANA Cloud") SAP HANA Cloud 4.3/5(620) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) [ ![ScyllaDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ScyllaDB") ScyllaDB 4.5/5(429) ](https://www.g2.com/products/scylladb/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elasticache/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 88 real user reviews. 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SS Sushil Kumar S. System Admin Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2022 "Amazon ElastiCache" 4/5 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. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? We couldn't run our LMS without a high-performance cache. We tried a lot with configuring the Redis cache on dedicated hosting on high-end servers but it couldn't deliver the services like AWS Redis Cache. At last, I came in contact with the AWS team and their Elasticache met our requirements of cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/5/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nandakumar G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nandakumar G.") NG Nandakumar G. DevOps Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/21/2023 "High speed cloudnative in-memory cache" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? \* it's compatible with redis and memcached engine \* It supports resource wise access for application data \* Since it supports redis and memcached engine already, we don't have to do heavy refactoring in our code to move from self managed redis/memcached to EC, we can continue using popular opensource clients to connect with EC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? \* ElastiCache is little bit expensive when compared to other managed caching services, but it makes sense to use EC if all of our infrastructure is in AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? \* EC helped us in increasing the application response time by enabling us to quickly retrieve the data from the cache, without requiring heavy ops. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Saravanan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Saravanan M.") SM Saravanan M. Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2023 "In Memory datacache in awscloud" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? Open source and highly performing in-memory key-value store Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? Complexity and costs and limited data structures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? Mainly for data caching and enabling for fast performing things where dB is not required for fetching data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![ajay k.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ajay k.") AK ajay k. Backend Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/14/2023 "ElastiCache is super fast" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? Cloud based reachbility to super fast in-memory database with low latency. Available mostly at every sea data center helps to all the organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? It's not support full features of redis but most likely works like redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? Faster data retrieval for processing high speed transactions in low latency platforms and frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/15/2022 "Fast and reliable for sensitive data caching" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? Easy to store and retrieve cached data faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? Pricing, In my opinion pricing is on higher side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache: Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? advanced caching capabilities for storing frequently used data like log in informations, device info, IP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/30/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/6/2022 "Elasticache is an AWS database service for caching the data for speedy retrievals" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? Elasticache is an AWS database service for caching the data for speedy retrievals. AWS RDS can be the tool used with this software. Amazon S3 can also be used. its good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? Sometimes it can be a costly method to implement when you are very low on no fo services running. it can also vary with different regions it is placed in. otherwise it is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? Sometimes it can be a costly method to implement when you are very low on no fo services running. it can also vary with different regions it is placed in. otherwise, it is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Roshan L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Roshan L.") RL Roshan L. Technical Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/9/2021 "Amazon Elasticache is more like Redis." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? AWS Elasticache is an alternate of Redis if you are already into AWS stack. It fits best with serverless technology as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? What I personally did not like about elasticache is its implementation with Lambda. It was not easy to implement with Lambda functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache: I would say AWS Elasticache is a great service. And in today's world of technology, we all need a service like this for either cache or key-value database. It fastens your applications. It is a must to have in your architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? We were using Elasticache for caching and key-value database. It's extremely fast and optimized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![PYAE PHYOE S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PYAE PHYOE S.") PS PYAE PHYOE S. DevOps Engineer Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/26/2021 "My experience about elasticache" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? The thing is to improve application performance and as it's managed service, we don't need to worry about maintenance issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? Nothing much. But it would be great if to modify cache instance type, data should not be lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? Cache data always gone after changing cache instance type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") UO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/16/2021 "Amazon ElasticCache" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? Multiple options spending upon need. You can go with redis or memcached. Redis also comes in with Auth option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? So far has been good. Nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache: Great option for secure data storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? We are saving a lot of state information in redis, which otherwise would have to be saved in other inefficient options. It is available at millisecond latency and redis can also be used as database for relatively smaller use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") AA Verified User in Accounting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/14/2022 "I worked with manual backup and restore of Elasticache redis clusters cross region it easy to do." 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache? User interface and the automated backup options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache? The restore of the clusters takes a longer time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you? Reducking latency by Cacheing the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon ElastiCache? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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