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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93 Likeliness to Recommend
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90 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 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?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Inspires Innovation
Cons
- Under Delivered
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Amazon ElastiCache Reviews
Praveen B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
It comes with Amazon Cloud and its very effective.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Amazon Elasticache is easy to integrate and good for replication in DR environments and considering high availability.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Replication
What do you dislike most about this product?
Flexibility needed for integration.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Recommended for DR environment and High Availability
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
ajay k.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Need hot data go for elasticache
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Easy to integrate and security at utmost level.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Most favourite is security and performance
What do you dislike most about this product?
Service level agreement
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Must use this product
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Nandakumar G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2023
A fast, cloud-native, in-memory cache.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?
Amazon ElastiCache sets itself apart with seamless AWS integration and fully managed, scalable, and versatile in-memory caching options.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
* compatible with redis and memcached engine * As it already supports Redis and Memcached engines, transitioning from self-managed Redis/Memcached to Amazon ElastiCache doesn't require extensive code refactoring. We can seamlessly maintain connectivity using popular open-source clients.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While ElastiCache may be slightly pricier than alternative managed caching services, opting for EC becomes justified when your entire infrastructure is within the AWS environment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider Amazon ElastiCache for seamless AWS integration and efficient managed caching, especially if your infrastructure is predominantly hosted on AWS. Evaluate the pricing against your specific needs and benefit from its compatibility with popular caching engines like Redis and Memcached.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
- Fair
- Security Protects
