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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…

Like lazy loading, write through is another caching strategy but unlike lazy loading, it does not wait for a hit or miss. It is a straight forward strategy in which…

There are different ways to populate the cache and keep maintaining the cache. These different ways are known as caching strategies. A gaming site maintaining the leaderboard data needs a…