Reduce Amazon ElastiCache costs with these tips

In-memory caching service

Amazon ElastiCache cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon ElastiCache costs with these tips

Monitor Node Usage

Monitor ElastiCache node usage with CloudWatch metrics. Ensure the nodes are right-sized as per your workload needs. Oversized nodes can lead to wasted resources and higher costs.

Delete Unused Clusters

Regularly review your ElastiCache deployments. Delete any unused cache clusters that are no longer required in order to prevent unnecessary spend.

Use Read Replicas

Leverage read replicas to improve the performance and availability of cached data. This allows for scale reads without impacting base cache capacity, thus optimizing costs versus performance requirements.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon ElastiCache

About Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully-managed service that supports Redis and Memcached. It offers cost-effective, real-time performance and high availability for applications and is often used in data caching, web, mobile apps, healthcare, finance, gaming, IoT, and machine learning. ElastiCache improves database and app performance, and can scale to hundreds of operations per second. It also ensures enhanced security, reliability, scalability, and cost savings for memory-intensive tasks.

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Amazon ElastiCache pricing

Amazon ElastiCache's pricing offers serverless or on-demand nodes. Serverless pricing depends on data stored in GiB-hours and compute utilized in ECPUs. On-demand nodes incur hourly per node charges. Extra costs may apply for backup storage, data transfer, and AWS Outposts usage. AWS Free Tier provides new customers with free ElastiCache usage like 750 hours of node use and 15 GiB monthly data transfer for a year. The Free Tier doesn't include serverless pricing.

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