ElastiCache

Service that makes deploying a caching system easier by managing hardware

• Redis and Memcached are available engines
  • memcached is simple, and scales horizontally with auto discovery for adding
  • has less features, each node starts empty
  • redis is more feature rich, including state snapshotting
  • redis clusters can only have one node, with up to 6 replica clusters
• offers horizontal and vertical scaling options