# Amazon ElastiCache vs Upstash

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Amazon ElastiCache

| Attribute | Amazon ElastiCache | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 83.1 (61% (medium)) | 73.3 (72% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An AWS-hosted caching platform that provides ultra-low latency access to frequently used data with support for Valkey, Memcached, and Redis-compatible APIs. It automatically manages infrastructure, scales elastically to handle billions of requests per second, and eliminates downtime during maintenance. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"What is Amazon ElastiCache?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon ElastiCache offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Is Amazon ElastiCache free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon ElastiCache supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"What platforms does Amazon ElastiCache support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon ElastiCache, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Can Amazon ElastiCache be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon ElastiCache. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon ElastiCache not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp","question":"What security certifications does Amazon ElastiCache have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Amazon ElastiCache is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Where is Amazon ElastiCache available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud platform offering serverless Redis, vector databases, message queues, and workflow orchestration designed for developers building serverless applications, with usage-based and fixed-rate pricing options. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What is Upstash?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $10 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Is Upstash free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What platforms does Upstash support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Upstash, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Can Upstash be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Upstash, including Cloudflare Workers, Auth0, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Debezium, JDBC and FluentBit, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What does Upstash integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Upstash. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Upstash not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/redis-new-pricing","question":"What security certifications does Upstash have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Where is Upstash available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A fully managed caching service that removes infrastructure management overhead while delivering sub-millisecond data access. It supports Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS, enabling teams to use familiar APIs and migrate existing applications with minimal code changes. | A cloud platform offering serverless Redis, vector databases, message queues, and workflow orchestration designed for developers building serverless applications, with usage-based and fixed-rate pricing options. |
| features.capabilities | `{"clustering":"replicated","deployment":"managed","consistency":"eventual","persistence":"snapshot","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"in_memory","licence_class":"source_available","wire_protocol":"resp","pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","redis_api_compat":"full"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","clustering":"replicated","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"strong","persistence":"durable","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"persistent","transactions":"multi_exec","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","wire_protocol":"resp","full_text_bm25":true,"multi_threaded":false,"pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","redis_api_compat":"full","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 6 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Cloudflare Workers"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Debezium"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"Drizzle","native":true,"category":"orm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel AI SDK","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redis protocol clients","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel","native":false},{"name":"Aiven","native":true}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":["CN"]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"On-Demand","summary":"Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing per instance","features":["Hourly instance pricing","No minimum fees","No upfront commitments","Auto scaling"],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless","summary":"Usage-based billing with no minimum fees or upfront commitments","features":["Zero infrastructure management","Zero downtime maintenance","Billed per GB-hour","Minimum 1 GB data storage"],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Database Savings Plans","summary":"Commit to specific hourly spend for savings","features":["1-year usage commitment","Discounted hourly rates"],"commitment":"annual","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Backup storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.085,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Starting at $6/month (Valkey Serverless). Free tier: 750 hours cache.t3.micro + $100 credits.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T10:30:16.025Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["No replication","Single database","Limited throughput"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"30 MB database with no credit card required","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"30 MB","throughput":"100 ops/sec","connections":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Essentials","summary":"$5/month (250 MB) to $216/month (12 GB)","features":["Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)","Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier","Optional high availability","Flex tier with reduced throughput"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":216,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Shared, fixed-price tier with predefined database sizes","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$200/month minimum + $0.014/hour usage-based billing","features":["Unlimited memory","Dedicated VPC infrastructure","Multiple databases per subscription","Active-Active multi-region writes","Auto-tiering","Private connectivity"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":200,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.014,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Dedicated infrastructure with unlimited memory and pay-as-you-go billing","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upstash.com/blog/redis-cloud-pricing-in-2026-plans-costs-and-real-examples","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T11:29:25.190Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 1","status":"active"},{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"},{"name":"SOC 3","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | - |

## Capabilities (Key-Value Stores)

| Capability | Amazon ElastiCache | Upstash |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Storage tier | In-memory | Persistent |
| Persistence | Snapshot (RDB) | Fully durable |
| Data structures | Rich types | Rich types |
| **Protocol** |  |  |
| Wire protocol | RESP (Redis) | RESP (Redis) |
| **Distribution** |  |  |
| Clustering | Replicated | Replicated |
| Consistency | Eventual | Strong |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Eviction / TTL policies | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-threaded | - | ✗ |
| Pub/Sub / streams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transactions / atomic ops | - | MULTI-EXEC |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Managed |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Source-available | Proprietary |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Redis API compatibility | Full | Full |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-15T21:26:47.174Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*