AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster
- Managed
Redis or Memcached
In-memory database- Ports
Aurora PostgreSQL: 5432
Aurora MySQL: 3306
Authentication
- All caches in ElastiCache
do not support IAM authentication
- IAM policies are used for api-level security only
- Redis
Redis auth can be used with a password/token to connect to the cache- For extra security use security groups
- Add SSL encryption
- Memcached
- Support
SASL-based authentication
Properties
Engine
Redis- Multi-AZ with auto-failover
- Supports read replicas
- Data durability using AOF
- Backup and restore features
- HIPAA compliant
Memcached- Multi-node for partioning data (
sharding)
- No replication!
- Non persistent
- No backup and restore
- Multi-threaded architecture