AWS service
Amazon ElastiCache: status and incident history today
AWS Health Dashboard shows no major incidents right now; 2 minor or regional notices are open.
Last checked against AWS Health Dashboard.
Status now
AWS: Region Availability in me-central-1 (UAE), if you run there
Affects Amazon ElastiCache in me-central-1 (UAE). Latest update: We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) Region. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone. We continue to…
AWS: Region Availability in me-south-1 (Bahrain), if you run there
Affects Amazon ElastiCache in me-south-1 (Bahrain). Latest update: We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) Region. The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand. After a thorough assessment,…
Alternatives
Redis
In-memory data store with pub/sub, persistence, and Lua scripting
Strengths
- Rich data structures (lists, sets, sorted sets, hashes)
- Built-in pub/sub messaging
Trade-offs
- Single-threaded (can bottleneck on CPU)
- Memory-intensive for large datasets
Memcached
Simple, high-performance distributed memory caching system
Strengths
- Extremely fast for simple key-value operations
- Multi-threaded architecture scales well
Trade-offs
- Only supports simple key-value storage
- No persistence - data lost on restart
Hazelcast
Distributed in-memory data grid with caching capabilities
Strengths
- Distributed architecture (no single point of failure)
- Supports complex data structures and queries
Trade-offs
- More complex to set up than Redis/Memcached
- Higher resource usage
Valkey
Open-source Redis fork maintained by the Linux Foundation
Strengths
- Fully compatible with Redis protocol and commands
- Community-driven (no license restrictions)
Trade-offs
- Relatively new project (forked in 2024)
- Smaller ecosystem than Redis
Example stacks with Amazon ElastiCache
Docs and release notes
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