Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Caching

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a great choice for implementing a highly available, distributed, and secure in-memory cache to decrease access latency, increase throughput, and ease the load off your relational or NoSQL databases and applications. ElastiCache can serve frequently requested items at sub-millisecond response times, and enables you to easily scale for higher loads without growing the costlier backend databases. Database query results caching, persistent session caching, and full-page caching are all popular examples of caching with ElastiCache for Redis. Learn how to build a caching application with ElastiCache for Redis.

Chat and Messaging

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis supports the PUB/SUB standard with pattern matching. This allows ElastiCache for Redis to support high performance chat rooms, real-time comment streams, and server intercommunication. You can also use PUB/SUB to trigger actions based on published events. Learn how to build a chat application with ElastiCache for Redis.

Gaming Leaderboards

Real-time gaming leaderboards are easy to create with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. Just use the Redis Sorted Set data structure, which provides uniqueness of elements while maintaining the list sorted by their scores. Creating a real-time ranked list is as simple as updating a user’s score each time it changes. You can also use Sorted Sets to handle time series data by using timestamps as the score.

Geospatial

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis offers purpose-built in-memory data structures and operators to manage real-time geospatial data at scale and speed. You can use ElastiCache for Redis to add location-based features such as drive time, drive distance, and points of interests to your applications. Learn how to build a geospatial application with ElastiCache for Redis.

Machine Learning

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis gives you a fast in-memory data store to build and deploy machine learning models quickly. Use ElastiCache for Redis for use cases such as fraud detection in gaming and financial services, real-time bidding in ad-tech, and matchmaking in dating and ride sharing to process live data and make decisions within tens of milliseconds. Learn how Coffee Meets Bagel uses ElastiCache for real-time machine learning-based dating recommendations.

Media Streaming

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis offers a fast, in-memory data store to power live streaming use cases. ElastiCache for Redis can be used to store metadata for user profile and viewing history, authentication information/tokens for millions of users, and manifest files to enable CDNs to stream videos to millions of mobile and desktop users at a time.

Queues

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis offers List data structure making it easy to implement a lightweight, persistent queue. Lists offer atomic operations as well as blocking capabilities, making them suitable for a variety of applications that require a reliable message broker or a circular list.

Real-time Analytics

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with streaming solutions such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis as an in-memory data store to ingest, process, and analyze real-time data with sub-millisecond latency. ElastiCache is an ideal choice for real-time analytics use cases such as social media, ad targeting, personalization, and IoT and time-series data analytics.

Session Store

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is highly suited as a session store to manage session information such as user authentication tokens, session state, and more. Simply use ElastiCache for Redis as a fast key-value store with appropriate TTL on session keys to manage your session information. Session management is commonly required for online applications, including games, e-commerce websites, and social media platforms. Learn how to use ElastiCache for Redis as a session store.