12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon ElastiCache first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Elasticache is expensive but very reliable.”
mixed · production · feydaykyn · 2022-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the service is so brain-dead simple that I can't imagine what the need for that would really be.”
endorse · production · drchopchop · 2020-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“generally the basic stuff like S3, SNS, SQS, Elasticache, etc just works, and doesn't require any attention.”
endorse · production · NathanKP · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Elasticache has definitely been a winner and allowed us to replace our dedicated memcache instances.”
endorse · production · blantonl · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Valkey on our Elasticache instances”
neutral · production · llmthrow103 · 2025-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“lambda, sqs, and elasticache/redis costs and the work was done in 1/8th the time”
neutral · production · hylaride · 2025-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main cloud services I use at work are: 4. ElastiCache/some complex name in azure”
neutral · production · gravypod · 2020-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in prod we run all of our stateful components outside K8s (generally using things like RDS and ElastiCache).”
neutral · production · beefsack · 2020-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use AWS managed cache, queuing and container orchestration platform.”
neutral · production · superkitty · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have one large (size escapes me) ElastiCache instance.”
neutral · production · themartorana · 2016-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Elasticache recently as a test, and found that it works fine but don't see any compelling reason not to just manage our own memcached servers.”
neutral · personal · vosper · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?