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Amazon ElastiCache

Composite Score

8.4 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Amazon ElastiCache won the following awards in the Data Replication category

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4 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Conflict Resolution

2024

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1 Top Rated Features

2024

Amazon ElastiCache Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 95%
Negotiation and Contract:: 90%
Conflict Resolution:: 98%
Strategy & Innovation:: 94%
Service Experience:: 97%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 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?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Source Updates

Verification and Audits

Encryption

Merge Replication Support

Continuous Data Protection

Integration with Cloud Storage

Management Console

Replication with Cloud

Anomaly Detection

Scheduling

Transformation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Amazon ElastiCache Reviews

Kurshid S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Powerful and Scalable Caching Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached solutions with high availability, auto-scaling, and seamless AWS integration. Its deep integration with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, and RDS makes it a great choice for scalable caching.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The low latency and high performance of ElastiCache make it an excellent choice for caching applications. It also simplifies cluster management, failover handling, and maintenance compared to self-hosted Redis or Memcached.

What do you dislike most about this product?

ElastiCache lacks built-in query monitoring for better cache optimization. Also, Memcached users don’t have automated backups, which makes disaster recovery more challenging.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you need a high-performance, scalable caching layer within AWS, ElastiCache is a great choice. However, plan your scaling strategy in advance and monitor costs carefully to avoid over-provisioning.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Akarsh A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Amazing Management portal, Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Easy to manage by AWS, Because Management is so easy and data we fetch easily by cache.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to settle down the data in the storage of cache

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing was dislike here.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Better then redis, memcached give more capabilities, and elastic cache easy to handle in the management console of AWS.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Namrata Y.

Role: Public Sector
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Easy to use and best as per other cloud markets

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory cache environment in the cloud. It improves the performance of web applications by retrieving data from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Elasticsearch Pricing: It mainly depends on the instance types, the nature of workload (On-Demand Instances or Reserved Instances), and additional charges for optional features such as data transfer, data storage, and snapshots. You can check out the detailed pricing

What do you dislike most about this product?

You cannot limit the Client from accessing data stores via the AWS console. AWS infrastructure can be time-consuming. Most of the time, cache data is stored in the primary data store instead of the secondary. Default TTL is infinity

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Amazon Elasticache provides a fast in-memory data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. It stores ephemeral data in memory and gives a sub-millisecond response. Elasticache is used in real-time transactions, chat, BI and analytics, session store, gaming leaderboards, and cache

Pros

Effective Service
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Cons

Less Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Amazon ElastiCache Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Source Updates Supports 2-way replication between sources and targets.

Verification and Audits Compare test, verify and reconcile replication results for accuracy and in support of auditing.

Encryption Protects data in-transit from the sources and also to the target environment.

Merge Replication Support Synchronize bi-directionally between multiple targets and multiple sources.

Continuous Data Protection Changed data is replicated continuously and maintained in a journal, allowing an application to be consistently restored and audited.

Integration with Cloud Storage Supports cloud storage vendors like Amazon, Azure, Google, Snowflake, Oracle as targets for replication.

Management Console Visual tools that provides information and management of/on the replication performance, status and errors.

Replication with Cloud Ability to source data from cloud-based applications and data sources.

Anomaly Detection The ability to identify and classify anomalous patterns in data as it is moved to the database.

Scheduling Has the ability to schedule replication at desired times if not real-time.

Transformation Built in functions allow easy data transformation from source to destination.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Amazon ElastiCache Reviews

Kurshid S.

Powerful and Scalable Caching Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Akarsh A.

Amazing Management portal, Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Namrata Y.

Easy to use and best as per other cloud markets

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Merge Replication Support

Continuous Data Protection

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Replication with Cloud

Anomaly Detection

Scheduling

Transformation

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Vendor Support

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