Summary

• Amazon ElastiCache is a scalable, reliable, and fully managed in-memory data store and caching service that improves the performance of your application, by serving the data from the in-memory cache instead of retrieving it from the source data store.
• Amazon ElastiCache offers two open source caching mechanisms, Redis and Memcached.
• As compared to open source Memcached, Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has several cutting-edge and enhanced reliability features, which make it more favorable to use in the cloud for a production load.
• Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached can automatically detect node failure and recover accordingly.
• Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached supports automatic node discovery, as it saves developers from making any changes to the application when a node has been added or removed in the cluster.
• Amazon ElastiCache can provide high availability and avoid...