August 22, 2011. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.

Can ElastiCache be used as a database?

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.

Is ElastiCache a DB?

Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis, voted the most loved database by developers in the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey, and Memcached for your most demanding applications that require sub-millisecond response times.