ElastiCache

In-Memory Cache Engine for other DBs like DynamoDB & RDS.

Essentials

• Fully-managed, in-memory data store and cache service

• Used to improve database performance by caching results of queries that are made to a database

• Provisions node clusters you can scale

• Allows for managing web sessions, and also dynamic generated ata.

• Applications use APIs to set and get data

• Available Engines to power ElastiCache include:

  • Memcached

    • Simple model

    • Easy to scale

    • Multithreaded

  • Redis

    • Complex data types

    • Multi-AZ failover

    • Data persistence

    • Snapshots for backup and restore

    • Encryption (HIPAA compliant)