Tag: HAQM ElastiCache

HAQM ElastiCache gives you the power to improve application performance by adding a flexible, scalable caching layer between your application and your database. Today we are happy to announce a new feature that will make ElastiCache even easier to use. Our new Auto Discovery feature will allow your applications to automatically and transparently adapt to […]

If you are using HAQM ElastiCache to implement a caching layer in your application, you now have four additional cache node types to choose from, bringing the total up to eleven types. Here are the new types and their specs: cache.t1.micro has 213 MB of RAM for caching, and 1 virtual core. cache.m1.medium has 3.35 […]

I’ve got good news for users of the HAQM Relational Database Service and ElastiCache. We’re reducing prices and adding more instance types. RDS Price ReductionWe’ve reduced prices on RDS Database Instances by 8% to 14% in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. Here are sample prices for standard deployment (single Availability […]

Today’s guest post comes to you from Omer Zaki, a Senior Product Manager on our Data Services team. Omer’s post talks about how our customers have put HAQM ElastiCache to use in a wide variety of applications and environments. — Jeff; We launched HAQM ElastiCache last year to make it easy to deploy, operate and […]

HAQM ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy, scale, and run a cloud-based in-memory cache that is protocol-compliant with Memcached. ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications and reduces the load on your databases by retrieving data from a fast, managed, Memcached-compatible, in-memory caching system, instead of relying entirely on disk-based storage. It can […]

AWS works hard to lower our costs so that we can pass those savings back to our customers. We look to reduce hardware costs, improve operational efficiencies, lower power consumption and innovate in many other areas of our business so we can be more efficient. The history of AWS bears this out — in the […]

Today’s guest blogger Rahul Pathak, a Senior Product Manager on the AWS Database Team. Rahul has some news to share. — Jeff; HAQM ElastiCache is now available in two additional Regions: US West (Oregon) and South America (Sao Paulo). Caching systems perform best when they are right next to your application servers, so were excited […]

I’ve got lots of HAQM ElastiCache news for you today! We’ve enabled ElastiCache in four additional AWS Regions and we have also added AWS CloudFormation support. New Regions We launched ElastiCache back in August (read my blog post to learn more), in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region. As I have mentioned in the past, […]