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Memcached
Memcached (pronunciation: mem-cashed, mem-cash-dee) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read. Memcached is free and open-source software, licensed under the Revised BSD license. Memcached runs on Unix-like operating systems (at least Linux and OS X) and
, and scaling of memcached and Redis deployments. Complex administration processes like patching software, backing up and restoring data sets and dynamically adding or removing capabilities are managed automatically. Scaling ElastiCache resources can be performed by a single API call.
Amazon ElastiCache was first released on 22 August 2011, supporting memcached. This was followed by support for reserved instances on 5 Apr 2012 and Redis on 4 Sep 2013.
Uses.
As a managed database service with multiple supported engines, Amazon ElastiCache has a wide range of uses,