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Amazon ElastiCache

8.4 /10
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Amazon ElastiCache
8.4 /10

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases. You can use ElastiCache for caching, which accelerates application and database performance, or as a primary data store for use cases that don't require durability like session stores, gaming leaderboards, streaming, and analytics. ElastiCache is compatible with Redis and Memcached.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon ElastiCache won the following awards in the Data Replication category

Amazon ElastiCache Ratings

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92 Likeliness to Recommend

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100 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon ElastiCache?

0% Negative
0% Neutral
100% Positive

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Verification and Audits

91

Encryption

89

Continuous Data Protection

88

Management Console

87

Integration with Cloud Storage

86

Replication with Cloud

83

Integration With Storage Arrays

80

Scheduling

80

Data Customization

79

Real Time Migration

78

On-Prem Sources

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Implementation

87

Vendor Support

86

Ease of IT Administration

86

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Ease of Data Integration

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Quality of Features

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Ease of Customization

81

Business Value Created

78

Breadth of Features

77

Amazon ElastiCache Reviews

Md M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

The database cost saver

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Database limitations are often a bottleneck for application performance. By placing Amazon ElastiCache between an application and its database tier, database operations can be accelerated. Using ElastiCache help to reduce provisioned DynamoDB capacity by 90%, reducing total database cost by 6 times.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Other than it's main benefit of database optimization, We can check ElastiCache metrics via a dedicated monitoring tool integrating with Amazon CloudWatch, which makes it easy to surveillance.

What do you dislike most about this product?

ElastiCache doesn't support autofailover from one AWS Region to another. So you need to have the back up system in the same AWS region.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Plan your bill well before using the feature

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Obaib E.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Energy
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Great Performance, Needs More Advanced Features

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Amazon ElastiCache differentiates itself through seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem, offering a fully managed service for both Redis and Memcached. It ensures high availability and scalability with features like automatic scaling and multi-AZ deployments. ElastiCache provides robust security measures, including VPC integration and encryption, alongside comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch. Its tight integration with other AWS services simplifies deployment and management, making it a powerful choice for applications needing reliable, high-performance in-memory caching.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Amazon ElastiCache is its seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem. This tight integration allows for easy interaction with other AWS services like EC2, RDS, Lambda, and more, creating a cohesive and efficient environment for deploying and managing applications. This synergy simplifies the architecture, enhances performance, and reduces operational complexity, making it a powerful tool for developers and system administrators who rely on AWS for their infrastructure needs.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Amazon ElastiCache is its pricing structure, which can be relatively high compared to other caching solutions. The costs can add up quickly, especially for large-scale deployments or when using advanced features like multi-AZ deployments and high memory instances. This can make it less accessible for smaller businesses or startups with limited budgets, despite its robust features and seamless AWS integration.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For those considering Amazon ElastiCache, evaluate whether Redis or Memcached fits your needs. Monitor costs carefully, optimizing instance types and features to balance performance and budget. Leverage AWS integration to create a cohesive architecture with services like EC2 and Lambda. Plan for scalability with automatic scaling and read replicas. Implement security best practices, using VPC, IAM policies, and encryption. Regularly monitor performance with CloudWatch, and use automated backups for data protection. These steps will help you maximize ElastiCache’s benefits efficiently.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy

Shivangani T.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

"Cache Pro : AWS Elastic Cache"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

1 Amazon Elastic Cache is fully managed, monitored and optimized by AWS so we don't have to worry about its management and optimization. 2 It provides encryption at rest , also supports IAM authentication. 3 It also supports SSL in flight encryption for Redis and for memcached it support SASL based authentication which is an Advance mechanism 4 It easily integrate with AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and optimization 5 It is globally available

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AMAZON Elastic Cache is Fully Managed so I don't have to take care of its management, optimization, setup, configuration, failure recovery and backups. This makes my life easier

What do you dislike most about this product?

One of its Drawback is that Amazon don't provide high availability for memcached. And for memcached they don't have any backup and restore option and also it's not a persistent cache

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your plan is to use elastic cache for Redis then surely you can go for it. But if you opt for Memcached then I don't recommend AWS elastic cache

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service

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