AWS ElastiCache

The cost is managed for AWS ElastiCache in two ways. One is using the tags and the other way is by using the pricing for the reserved nodes. The two…

Tags in ElastiCache are also known as cost allocation tags. They are a key-value pair which are associated with one ElastiCache resource. Both the key and the value are case…

Throughout the lifecycle of the ElastiCache cluster, many things happen, like addition or removal of a node, the SNS notification service being updated etc. These are known as events in…

AWS SNS stands for simple notification service. It is used to fan out messages to a large number of subscriber endpoints for parallel processing. For example, used to fan out…

Using any AWS resource needs permissions from the AWS account holder to the user requesting such permission. Whether it is creation, access or deletion of the resource, all such actions…

Once you have achieved the purpose of using an ElastiCache cluster, you will eventually reach a point when you no longer need the cluster either because you have a new…

The following scenarios are supported by AWS ElastiCache platform to connect to clusters in a VPC. We already know from previous section that we use a EC2 instance to connect…

Memcached is an open source, high-performance, distributed memory caching system intended to speed up dynamic web applications by reducing the database load. It is a key-value dictionary of strings, objects,…

The VPC of the EC2 instance used for connecting to the Memcached cluster may not be the same VPC in as that of the cluster. In such cases we need…

TTL is also known as Time to live. It is used to take advantage of both the lazy load strategy as well as write through strategy. These two strategies were…