--- 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 **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 88 ## About Amazon ElastiCache 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. ## Amazon ElastiCache Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users note the **cost efficiency** of alternatives to AWS, highlighting significant savings with better performance. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **poor customer support** from AWS, feeling neglected amidst critical security issues and high costs. (1 reviews) - Users love the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times significantly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extremely low-latency performance** of Amazon ElastiCache, enhancing application response times significantly. (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users criticize the **high costs** of Amazon ElastiCache, suggesting better value alternatives like GCP. (1 reviews) - Users face **downtime issues** when scaling large Redis clusters, requiring careful planning and rebalancing efforts. (1 reviews) - Users find Amazon ElastiCache **unreasonably expensive** for the lack of support and value compared to alternatives. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration with **poor customer support** from Amazon ElastiCache, leading them to seek alternatives like GCP. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with **scaling issues** in large Redis clusters, often requiring downtime and careful rebalancing efforts. (1 reviews) ## Amazon ElastiCache Reviews ### 1. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil Kumar S. | System Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** AWS Redis Cache Gives us great performance for our open Source Moodle LMS. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is very expensive and difficult to afford in India. **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. ### 2. High speed cloudnative in-memory cache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nandakumar G. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 3. In Memory datacache in awscloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravanan M. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Open source and highly performing in-memory key-value store **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Complexity and costs and limited data structures **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 ### 4. ElastiCache is super fast **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ajay k. | Backend Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It's not support full features of redis but most likely works like redis. **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. ### 5. Fast and reliable for sensitive data caching **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Easy to store and retrieve cached data faster. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Pricing, In my opinion pricing is on higher side **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** Yes **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 ### 6. Elasticache is an AWS database service for caching the data for speedy retrievals **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **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. **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 **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 ### 7. Amazon Elasticache is more like Redis. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roshan L. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 8. My experience about elasticache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PYAE PHYOE S. | DevOps Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2021 **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. **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. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cache data always gone after changing cache instance type. ### 9. Amazon ElasticCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **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 **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** So far has been good. Nothing to dislike **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** Great option for secure data storage **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. ### 10. I worked with manual backup and restore of Elasticache redis clusters cross region it easy to do. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** User interface and the automated backup options **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** The restore of the clusters takes a longer time **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducking latency by Cacheing the data ### 11. Fast, fully managed, scalable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Set up speed, scalability, management console, and logging. Good experience overall in production. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Nothing really to dislike as pricing is actually for the underlying resources. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database schema cache, standard application caching usage. ### 12. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service provided by AWS; It is compatible with Redis and Memcached **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** No such dislikes for this service as of now **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using this coaching service, we have optimized the performance of Databases and Applications for end users. ### 13. Good service if you need to use managed Redis and are on the AWS Cloud. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The service worked reliably. I never had issues with Redis downtime with a four-node cluster that was heavily used. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** I would say price, but it does vary what kind of usage the services using Elasticache need. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to cache importing data and API responses which Elasticache handled well. ### 14. Boost the performance of our Redis cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not much modification required to move our existing redis cluster onto the Amazon ElastiCache. What I love the most is Multi-AZ failsafe architecture available to set up our Redis cluster here. Also it is very fast and easy to manage through the AWS console. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not complaining, but it feels the pricing structure for the usage is pretty high. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Initially we had our redis cluster set up on a single EC2 instance. Since it is a startup we couldn't afford a bigger instance at that time. So everyday during our peak times the instance used to fail due to overload. We had a trial run with moving the redis cluster to Amazon ElastiCache and use the multi-AZ failsafe architecture. Initially it was a 3 node failsafe architecture. Right out of the bat, it was a hit. We immediately moved our production cluster on to it and never got to worry about it any other day. ### 15. ElastiCache is worthy in terms of holding data like token, images, urls in reference to latency **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** The latency through which we can store important data like token, images or other urls which is further beneficial. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** As it seems a little costly, It should be minimize to certain numbers. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems related to holding a session token for a period of time and nullify it after some time. ### 16. Quick and easy to set up but observed few issues with session management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Quick set up of a caching solution helped to save time **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Redis issues with session management created problems in some edge cases **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Session management in a non clustered cloud environment ### 17. Reliable Service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is highly scalable and fully managed. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It is expensive.Lack of command line access through aws console. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Redis is great for caching use case. ### 18. Fast, Reliable, Cheap **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zach A. | Sr. Software Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It's always available. We haven't had any downtime or management woes since launch! It's also very fast. It's been a big win using this instead of hosting our own Redis cluster. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** It's a big rigid when it comes to upgrades. Updating versions or hardware requires some manual orchestration. Setting up the cluster is also a bit unintuitive from a UI perspective, but that's solved by using Terraform anyway! **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** - Make sure you choose the right hardware--memory optimized instances are your friend for these workloads - Make sure you make use of replicas to distrubute reads (based on your workload) **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using it as a persistent caching layer serving our compute-intensive pageloads. ### 19. Amazon ElastiCache **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory caching engines: Memcached and Redis (also called “ElastiCache for Redis”). As a web service running in the computing cloud, Amazon ElastiCache is designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of memcached and Redis deployments. Complex administration processes like patching software, backing up and restoring data sets and dynamically adding or removing capabilities are managed automatically. Scaling ElastiCache resources can be performed by a single API call. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Redis on Elasticache does not directly support persistence (but it's do-able using the backup feature + or attaching a Redis Slave), so you run the risk of losing messages if the instance goes down. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** It’s very useful **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance of web applications ### 20. Dramatically speed up frequent call to your api **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** By using cache appropiately, we were able to increase speed and performance of our API by using the cache for our most frequently accessed calls instead of going to the DB **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** diagnosing issues with the calls was not easy, maybe more training was required but it was not easy to figure out how to go about it **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** one of our apis use it to speed up the GET calls to the api ### 21. Java clients for Elasticache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Setting up is easy and great response times. Used Terraform to setup and Lettuce client to communicate with the resource. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** We were looking for a Client to use with Elasticache and were little dissapointed not being able to use Amazon product directly and going to another third party client. This inceases our product dependencies increasing risk. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using to security tokens to validate and invalidate clients. ### 22. Elasticache for redis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin K. | Architect , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It’s good. Provides easy use of service. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Need to suppport latest redis version. Also need to remove limitation for redis instances in cluster **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Caching and multitrnanxy poc ### 23. Each to spin Redis cache instance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** It provides high availability and replications of Redis instance, with easy to use ElastiCache management console **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** No ElastiCache Memcached Cluster Client for JavaScript and Python, currently it only supports Java, C# and Php. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Amazon ElastiCache - Redis to cache API response's json data. It reduced user experienced app latency. ### 24. Easy to configure and fast access to data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando H. | Lead Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Amazon ElastiCache?** Simple and fast access to key/value data, as well as score and rank system. You can setup a new in-memory database in minutes. **What do you dislike about Amazon ElastiCache?** Not easy to setup external access to the database if your consumer application is not running inside the Amazon Web Services infrastructure. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon ElastiCache:** Best solution if your consumer applications are running in Amazon WebServices too. **What problems is Amazon ElastiCache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cache, temporarily data, message queue, non persistent data, in memory database. ## Amazon ElastiCache Discussions - [How has Amazon ElastiCache improved your database caching, and what challenges have you faced?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-has-amazon-elasticache-improved-your-database-caching-and-what-challenges-have-you-faced) - [What is Amazon ElastiCache used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-amazon-elasticache-used-for) - [Does ElastiCache work with DynamoDB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-elasticache-work-with-dynamodb) - [What type of caching does ElastiCache provide?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-type-of-caching-does-elasticache-provide) - [What is the benefit of using AWS managed services such as Amazon ElastiCache?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-benefit-of-using-aws-managed-services-such-as-amazon-elasticache) - [View Amazon ElastiCache pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elasticache/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+11%3A03%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=395c7093-f2fb-42bf-9263-bfb030a73381&secure%5Btoken%5D=d4182035daf6a465b002a0da4443728e3785695d80d09d1eabe98a2ab6790768&format=llm_user) ## Amazon ElastiCache Integrations - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-amazon-eks/reviews) - [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) ## Amazon ElastiCache Features **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Amazon ElastiCache Alternatives - [Redis Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-cloud/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (42 reviews) - [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (521 reviews) - [ScyllaDB](https://www.g2.com/products/scylladb/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (424 reviews)