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Amazon ElastiCache

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.1 /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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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2025

0 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Conflict Resolution

2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

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.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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

Continuous Data Protection

Verification and Audits

Encryption

Anomaly Detection

Integration with Cloud Storage

Management Console

Transformation

Merge Replication Support

Integration With Storage Arrays

Data Customization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Amazon ElastiCache Reviews

Vivekanandan S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Spin your cluster with a click of a button

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

High availability and operational overhead . We dont need anyone manage these clusters we have .

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We are not burdened to manage our redis cluster , thats my fav aspect of using AWS Elasticcache

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing like that , may AWS can introduce auto scaling feature , but not something necessarily needed for us now

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1. Easy deployment 2. Free oneself from managing the clusters 3. Encryption at rest 4. Simple to integrate with workloads

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Praveen B.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

It comes with Amazon Cloud and its very effective.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Amazon Elasticache is easy to integrate and good for replication in DR environments and considering high availability.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Replication

What do you dislike most about this product?

Flexibility needed for integration.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Recommended for DR environment and High Availability

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

ajay k.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Need hot data go for elasticache

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon ElastiCache from other similar products?

Easy to integrate and security at utmost level.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Most favourite is security and performance

What do you dislike most about this product?

Service level agreement

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Must use this product

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Amazon ElastiCache Ratings

92 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon ElastiCache?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Integration With Storage Arrays Supports on-premises storage vendors like SQL Server, DB2, HP, Vertica, Teradata, EMC as targets for replication.

Data Customization Provides full control over what types of data and sources are being backed up.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

Vivekanandan S.

Spin your cluster with a click of a button

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Praveen B.

It comes with Amazon Cloud and its very effective.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

ajay k.

Need hot data go for elasticache

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Source Updates

Continuous Data Protection

Verification and Audits

Encryption

Anomaly Detection

Integration with Cloud Storage

Management Console

Transformation

Merge Replication Support

Integration With Storage Arrays

Data Customization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features