How to: ElastiCache Basics
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  guide for Redis](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/index.html) ∙ [User
  guide for Memcached](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/mem-ug/index.html) ∙
  [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/faqs/) ∙
  [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/)
- **ElastiCache** is a managed in-memory cache service, that can be used to
  store temporary data in a fast in-memory cache, typically in order to avoid
  repeating the same computation multiple times when it could be reused.
- It supports both the [Memcached](https://memcached.org) and
  [Redis](https://redis.io) open source in-memory cache software and exposes
  them both using their native access APIs.
- The main benefit is that AWS takes care of running, patching and optimizing
  the cache nodes for you, so you just need to launch a cluster and configure
  its endpoint in your application, while AWS will take of most of the operational
  work of running the cache nodes.

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