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ElastiCache Redis and Memcached

Explore how AWS ElastiCache supports Redis and Memcached caches for improving application performance. Understand data partitioning, scaling methods, failover, backups, and security options. This lesson helps you choose the right caching strategy for your AWS infrastructure and prepares you for related exam topics.

ElastiCache Redis

ElastiCache can be used to provision managed Redis caches. It also supports Redis in cluster mode.

Points to note:

  • ElastiCache Redis caches automatically detect and recover from cache node failures.
  • Redis isn’t multithreaded.
  • With cluster mode enabled, Redis can partition data in up to 250 shards.
  • Authentication to Redis clusters can be controlled using Redis AUTH.
  • It supports
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