Available worldwide
What is Amazon ElastiCache?
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.
Amazon ElastiCache pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Starting at $6/month (Valkey Serverless). Free tier: 750 hours cache.t3.micro + $100 credits.
On-Demand
- Hourly instance pricing
- No minimum fees
- No upfront commitments
- Auto scaling
Serverless
- Zero infrastructure management
- Zero downtime maintenance
- Billed per GB-hour
- Minimum 1 GB data storage
Database Savings Plans
- 1-year usage commitment
- Discounted hourly rates
Add-ons
- Backup storage$0.09 per gb-month
What Amazon ElastiCache does
The capabilities that matter for key-value stores, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Storage tier
- In-memory
- Persistence
- Snapshot (RDB)
- Data structures
- Rich types
- Wire protocol
- RESP (Redis)
- Clustering
- Replicated
- Consistency
- Eventual
- Eviction / TTL policies
- ✓
- Multi-threaded
- -
- Pub/Sub / streams
- ✓
- Transactions / atomic ops
- -
- Deployment
- Managed
- Licence class
- Source-available
- Redis API compatibility
- Full
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 1active
- SOC 2active
- SOC 3active
- ISO 27001active
- PCI-DSSactive
- HIPAAactive
- FedRAMPactive
Amazon ElastiCache FAQ
Common questions about Amazon ElastiCache, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Amazon ElastiCache?
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.
Is Amazon ElastiCache free?
Amazon ElastiCache offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Amazon ElastiCache support?
Amazon ElastiCache supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Amazon ElastiCache be self-hosted?
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.
What security certifications does Amazon ElastiCache have?
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.
Where is Amazon ElastiCache available?
Amazon ElastiCache is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Amazon ElastiCache alternatives
Other key-value stores we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- UpstashServerless data platform for Redis, vector search, messaging, and workflowsmedium · 72%
- RedisHigh-performance, in-memory data engine for real-time applications and AI agentshigh · 75%
- Hazelcastmedium · 56%
- RocksDBAn embedded storage library that optimizes performance and efficiency for applications handling large datasetslow · 47%
- etcdA distributed key-value database for managing critical shared state across systemslow · 43%
- DragonflyDBAn in-memory database optimized for high-throughput applications with multi-threaded performance and lower operating costsmedium · 67%
Compare Amazon ElastiCache
Side by side against other key-value stores, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon ElastiCache, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 100 | 0.12 | 12.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 0.07 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.05 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.04 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Clustering: replicated · Deployment: managed · Consistency: eventual · Persistence: snapshot · Eviction ttl: Yes · Storage tier: in_memory | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Certifications | SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA +1 more | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
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