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# Amazon Elasticache

### Features

It is the fully managed in-memory data store offering from AWS.

It is supported by by both in memory engines - Memcached and Redis

It provides low latency in response times

It enables scaling and replicas to meet sudden surge in demand from the application

It can be used for database later caching i.e., between the application and actual database, Elasticache can act as buffer to hold the data  

When a web application is doing session storage, Elasticache with Redis engine can also used to get quicker responses on session data 

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