We recommend that first time users begin by reading the following sections, and refer to them as needed.
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Service highlights and pricing – The product detail page
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ElastiCache videos – The ElastiCache Videos section has videos that introduce you to Amazon ElastiCache. The videos cover common use cases for ElastiCache and demo how to use ElastiCache to reduce latency and improve throughput for your applications.
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Getting started – The Getting started with Amazon ElastiCache section includes information on creating a cache cluster. It also includes how to authorize access to the cache cluster, connect to a cache node, and delete the cache cluster.
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Performance at scale – The Performance at scale with Amazon ElastiCache
whitepaper addresses caching strategies that help your application to perform well at scale.
After you complete the preceding sections, read these sections:
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You want your nodes to be large enough to accommodate all the data you want to cache. At the same time, you don't want to pay for more cache than you need. You can use this topic to help select the best node size.
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ElastiCache best practices and caching strategies
Identify and address issues that can impact the efficiency of your cluster.
If you want to use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), you can use these documents to help you get started:
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AWS Command Line Interface documentation
This section provides information on downloading the AWS CLI, getting the AWS CLI working on your system, and providing your AWS credentials.
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AWS CLI documentation for ElastiCache
This separate document covers all of the AWS CLI for ElastiCache commands, including syntax and examples.
You can write application programs to use the ElastiCache API with a variety of popular programming languages. Here are some resources:
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Amazon Web Services provides a number of software development kits (SDKs) with support for ElastiCache. You can code for ElastiCache using Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, and other languages. These SDKs can greatly simplify your application development by formatting your requests to ElastiCache, parsing responses, and providing retry logic and error handling.
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If you don't want to use the AWS SDKs, you can interact with ElastiCache directly using the Query API. You can find troubleshooting tips and information on creating and authenticating requests and handling responses in this section.
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Amazon ElastiCache API Reference
This separate document covers all of the ElastiCache API operations, including syntax and examples.
