boost the performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.
ideal for real-time use cases like Caching, Session Stores, Gaming, Geospatial Services, Real-Time Analytics, and Queuing
choose Redis or Memcached depending on your use case
ElastiCache Benefits
high performance: in memory data store proving sub millisecond response times
fully managed
scalable with scale out, and up with sharding for writing and replicas for reading
Feature Comparison
Similarities
Sub-millisecond latency
easy to user
data partitioning
multiple programming language support
Memcached Only Features
multi-theaded architecture
Redis Only Features
Advanced data structures
Sanpshots
Replication
Transactions
Pub/Sub
Geospatial support
Lua script support – Lua is a fast programming language used for games, web applications and image processing
ElastiCache Pricing
Pricing is per hour based on usage.
Around 30 different standard node types are available from cache.t2.micro with 1 vCPU and 0.5GiB at $0.017 per hour to cache.m6g.16xlarge with 64 vCPU and 209GiB and 25 Gigabit network performance at $3.112 per hour on demand.
Around 20 different memory optimized node types are available from cache.r4.large with 2 vCPU and 12.3GiB and 10GiB network performance at $0.228 per hour to cache.r6g.16xlarge with 64 vCPU and 419GiB and 25 Gigabit network performance at $6.567 per hour on demand.
Reserved pricing is available on a 1 or 3 year basis with no upfront, partial upfront or full upfront pricing with discounts between 29% and 36% for a 1 year term and 47% to 55% for a 3 year term.
