AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster - AWS CloudFormation
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AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster

The AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster type creates an Amazon ElastiCache cache cluster.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Type" : "AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster",
  "Properties" : {
      "AutoMinorVersionUpgrade" : Boolean,
      "AZMode" : String,
      "CacheNodeType" : String,
      "CacheParameterGroupName" : String,
      "CacheSecurityGroupNames" : [ String, ... ],
      "CacheSubnetGroupName" : String,
      "ClusterName" : String,
      "Engine" : String,
      "EngineVersion" : String,
      "IpDiscovery" : String,
      "LogDeliveryConfigurations" : [ LogDeliveryConfigurationRequest, ... ],
      "NetworkType" : String,
      "NotificationTopicArn" : String,
      "NumCacheNodes" : Integer,
      "Port" : Integer,
      "PreferredAvailabilityZone" : String,
      "PreferredAvailabilityZones" : [ String, ... ],
      "PreferredMaintenanceWindow" : String,
      "SnapshotArns" : [ String, ... ],
      "SnapshotName" : String,
      "SnapshotRetentionLimit" : Integer,
      "SnapshotWindow" : String,
      "Tags" : [ Tag, ... ],
      "TransitEncryptionEnabled" : Boolean,
      "VpcSecurityGroupIds" : [ String, ... ]
    }
}

Properties

AutoMinorVersionUpgrade

If you are running Valkey 7.2 or later, or Redis OSS engine version 6.0 or later, set this parameter to yes if you want to opt-in to the next minor version upgrade campaign. This parameter is disabled for previous versions.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

AZMode

Specifies whether the nodes in this Memcached cluster are created in a single Availability Zone or created across multiple Availability Zones in the cluster's region.

This parameter is only supported for Memcached clusters.

If the AZMode and PreferredAvailabilityZones are not specified, ElastiCache assumes single-az mode.

Required: No

Type: String

Allowed values: single-az | cross-az

Update requires: No interruption

CacheNodeType

The compute and memory capacity of the nodes in the node group (shard).

The following node types are supported by ElastiCache. Generally speaking, the current generation types provide more memory and computational power at lower cost when compared to their equivalent previous generation counterparts. Changing the CacheNodeType of a Memcached instance is currently not supported. If you need to scale using Memcached, we recommend forcing a replacement update by changing the LogicalResourceId of the resource.

  • General purpose:

    • Current generation:

      M6g node types: cache.m6g.large, cache.m6g.xlarge, cache.m6g.2xlarge, cache.m6g.4xlarge, cache.m6g.8xlarge, cache.m6g.12xlarge, cache.m6g.16xlarge, cache.m6g.24xlarge

      M5 node types: cache.m5.large, cache.m5.xlarge, cache.m5.2xlarge, cache.m5.4xlarge, cache.m5.12xlarge, cache.m5.24xlarge

      M4 node types: cache.m4.large, cache.m4.xlarge, cache.m4.2xlarge, cache.m4.4xlarge, cache.m4.10xlarge

      T4g node types: cache.t4g.micro, cache.t4g.small, cache.t4g.medium

      T3 node types: cache.t3.micro, cache.t3.small, cache.t3.medium

      T2 node types: cache.t2.micro, cache.t2.small, cache.t2.medium

    • Previous generation: (not recommended)

      T1 node types: cache.t1.micro

      M1 node types: cache.m1.small, cache.m1.medium, cache.m1.large, cache.m1.xlarge

      M3 node types: cache.m3.medium, cache.m3.large, cache.m3.xlarge, cache.m3.2xlarge

  • Compute optimized:

    • Previous generation: (not recommended)

      C1 node types: cache.c1.xlarge

  • Memory optimized:

    • Current generation:

      R6gd node types: cache.r6gd.xlarge, cache.r6gd.2xlarge, cache.r6gd.4xlarge, cache.r6gd.8xlarge, cache.r6gd.12xlarge, cache.r6gd.16xlarge

      Note

      The r6gd family is available in the following regions: us-east-2, us-east-1, us-west-2, us-west-1, eu-west-1, eu-central-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2.

      R6g node types: cache.r6g.large, cache.r6g.xlarge, cache.r6g.2xlarge, cache.r6g.4xlarge, cache.r6g.8xlarge, cache.r6g.12xlarge, cache.r6g.16xlarge, cache.r6g.24xlarge

      R5 node types: cache.r5.large, cache.r5.xlarge, cache.r5.2xlarge, cache.r5.4xlarge, cache.r5.12xlarge, cache.r5.24xlarge

      R4 node types: cache.r4.large, cache.r4.xlarge, cache.r4.2xlarge, cache.r4.4xlarge, cache.r4.8xlarge, cache.r4.16xlarge

    • Previous generation: (not recommended)

      M2 node types: cache.m2.xlarge, cache.m2.2xlarge, cache.m2.4xlarge

      R3 node types: cache.r3.large, cache.r3.xlarge, cache.r3.2xlarge, cache.r3.4xlarge, cache.r3.8xlarge

For region availability, see Supported Node Types by Region

Additional node type info

  • All current generation instance types are created in Amazon VPC by default.

  • Valkey and Redis OSS append-only files (AOF) are not supported for T1 or T2 instances.

  • Valkey and Redis OSS Multi-AZ with automatic failover is not supported on T1 instances.

  • Redis OSS configuration variables appendonly and appendfsync are not supported on Redis OSS version 2.8.22 and later.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

CacheParameterGroupName

The name of the parameter group to associate with this cluster. If this argument is omitted, the default parameter group for the specified engine is used. You cannot use any parameter group which has cluster-enabled='yes' when creating a cluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

CacheSecurityGroupNames

A list of security group names to associate with this cluster.

Use this parameter only when you are creating a cluster outside of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

CacheSubnetGroupName

The name of the subnet group to be used for the cluster.

Use this parameter only when you are creating a cluster in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Important

If you're going to launch your cluster in an Amazon VPC, you need to create a subnet group before you start creating a cluster. For more information, see AWS::ElastiCache::SubnetGroup.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

ClusterName

A name for the cache cluster. If you don't specify a name, AWS CloudFormation generates a unique physical ID and uses that ID for the cache cluster. For more information, see Name Type.

The name must contain 1 to 50 alphanumeric characters or hyphens. The name must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

Engine

The name of the cache engine to be used for this cluster.

Valid values for this parameter are: memcached | valkey | redis

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

EngineVersion

The version number of the cache engine to be used for this cluster. To view the supported cache engine versions, use the DescribeCacheEngineVersions operation.

Important: You can upgrade to a newer engine version (see Selecting a Cache Engine and Version), but you cannot downgrade to an earlier engine version. If you want to use an earlier engine version, you must delete the existing cluster or replication group and create it anew with the earlier engine version.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

IpDiscovery

The network type you choose when modifying a cluster, either ipv4 | ipv6. IPv6 is supported for workloads using Valkey 7.2 and above, Redis OSS engine version 6.2 to 7.1 and Memcached engine version 1.6.6 and above on all instances built on the Nitro system.

Required: No

Type: String

Allowed values: ipv4 | ipv6

Update requires: No interruption

LogDeliveryConfigurations

Specifies the destination, format and type of the logs.

Required: No

Type: Array of LogDeliveryConfigurationRequest

Update requires: No interruption

NetworkType

Must be either ipv4 | ipv6 | dual_stack. IPv6 is supported for workloads using Valkey 7.2 and above, Redis OSS engine version 6.2 to 7.1 and Memcached engine version 1.6.6 and above on all instances built on the Nitro system.

Required: No

Type: String

Allowed values: ipv4 | ipv6 | dual_stack

Update requires: Replacement

NotificationTopicArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic to which notifications are sent.

Note

The Amazon SNS topic owner must be the same as the cluster owner.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

NumCacheNodes

The number of cache nodes that the cache cluster should have.

Note

However, if the PreferredAvailabilityZone and PreferredAvailabilityZones properties were not previously specified and you don't specify any new values, an update requires replacement.

Required: Yes

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

Port

The port number on which each of the cache nodes accepts connections.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: Replacement

PreferredAvailabilityZone

The EC2 Availability Zone in which the cluster is created.

All nodes belonging to this cluster are placed in the preferred Availability Zone. If you want to create your nodes across multiple Availability Zones, use PreferredAvailabilityZones.

Default: System chosen Availability Zone.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

PreferredAvailabilityZones

A list of the Availability Zones in which cache nodes are created. The order of the zones in the list is not important.

This option is only supported on Memcached.

Note

If you are creating your cluster in an Amazon VPC (recommended) you can only locate nodes in Availability Zones that are associated with the subnets in the selected subnet group.

The number of Availability Zones listed must equal the value of NumCacheNodes.

If you want all the nodes in the same Availability Zone, use PreferredAvailabilityZone instead, or repeat the Availability Zone multiple times in the list.

Default: System chosen Availability Zones.

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

PreferredMaintenanceWindow

Specifies the weekly time range during which maintenance on the cluster is performed. It is specified as a range in the format ddd:hh24:mi-ddd:hh24:mi (24H Clock UTC). The minimum maintenance window is a 60 minute period.

Valid values for ddd are:

  • sun

  • mon

  • tue

  • wed

  • thu

  • fri

  • sat

Example: sun:23:00-mon:01:30

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

SnapshotArns

A single-element string list containing an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies a Valkey or Redis OSS RDB snapshot file stored in Amazon S3. The snapshot file is used to populate the node group (shard). The Amazon S3 object name in the ARN cannot contain any commas.

Note

This parameter is only valid if the Engine parameter is redis.

Example of an Amazon S3 ARN: arn:aws:s3:::my_bucket/snapshot1.rdb

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: Replacement

SnapshotName

The name of a Valkey or Redis OSS snapshot from which to restore data into the new node group (shard). The snapshot status changes to restoring while the new node group (shard) is being created.

Note

This parameter is only valid if the Engine parameter is redis.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

SnapshotRetentionLimit

The number of days for which ElastiCache retains automatic snapshots before deleting them. For example, if you set SnapshotRetentionLimit to 5, a snapshot taken today is retained for 5 days before being deleted.

Note

This parameter is only valid if the Engine parameter is redis.

Default: 0 (i.e., automatic backups are disabled for this cache cluster).

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

SnapshotWindow

The daily time range (in UTC) during which ElastiCache begins taking a daily snapshot of your node group (shard).

Example: 05:00-09:00

If you do not specify this parameter, ElastiCache automatically chooses an appropriate time range.

Note

This parameter is only valid if the Engine parameter is redis.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

Tags

A list of tags to be added to this resource.

Required: No

Type: Array of Tag

Update requires: No interruption

TransitEncryptionEnabled

A flag that enables in-transit encryption when set to true.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

VpcSecurityGroupIds

One or more VPC security groups associated with the cluster.

Use this parameter only when you are creating a cluster in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

Return values

Ref

When the logical ID of this resource is provided to the Ref intrinsic function, Ref returns the resource name.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

The Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using the Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function, see Fn::GetAtt.

ConfigurationEndpoint.Address

The DNS hostname of the cache node.

Note

Valkey and Redis OSS (cluster mode disabled) replication groups don't have this attribute. Therefore, Fn::GetAtt returns a value for this attribute only if the replication group is clustered. Otherwise, Fn::GetAtt fails.

ConfigurationEndpoint.Port

The port number of the configuration endpoint for the Memcached cache cluster.

Note

Valkey and Redis OSS (cluster mode disabled) replication groups don't have this attribute. Therefore, Fn::GetAtt returns a value for this attribute only if the replication group is clustered. Otherwise, Fn::GetAtt fails.

Id

The resource name.

RedisEndpoint.Address

The DNS address of the configuration endpoint for the Valkey or Redis OSS cache cluster.

RedisEndpoint.Port

The port number of the configuration endpoint for the Valkey or Redis OSS cache cluster.

Examples

Cluster in a Default VPC

The following snippet describes an Elasticache cluster in a security group that is in a default VPC. Usually, a security group in a VPC requires the VPC ID to be specified. In this case, no VPC ID is needed because the security group uses the default VPC. If you want to specify a VPC for the security group, specify its VpcId property.

For the cache cluster, the VpcSecurityGroupIds property is used to associate the cluster with the security group. Because the VpcSecurityGroupIds property requires security group IDs (not security group names), the template snippet uses the Fn::GetAtt function instead of a Ref function on the ElasticacheSecurityGroup resource. The Ref function will return the security group name. If you specify a VPC ID for the security group, Ref returns the security group ID.

Note that InstanceSecurityGroup refers to the logical name of a security group that is not actually defined in this example. To learn more about the SourceSecurityGroupName property, see AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress.

JSON

{
    "ElasticacheSecurityGroup": {
        "Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
        "Properties": {
            "GroupDescription": "Elasticache Security Group",
            "SecurityGroupIngress": [
                {
                    "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                    "FromPort": 11211,
                    "ToPort": 11211,
                    "SourceSecurityGroupName": {
                        "Ref": "InstanceSecurityGroup"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "ElasticacheCluster": {
        "Type": "AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster",
        "Properties": {            
            "Engine": "memcached",
            "CacheNodeType": "cache.t2.micro",
            "NumCacheNodes": "1",
            "VpcSecurityGroupIds": [
                {
                    "Fn::GetAtt": [
                        "ElasticacheSecurityGroup",
                        "GroupId"
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

YAML

ElasticacheSecurityGroup:
  Type: 'AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup'
  Properties:
    GroupDescription: Elasticache Security Group
    SecurityGroupIngress:
      - IpProtocol: tcp
        FromPort: 11211
        ToPort: 11211
        SourceSecurityGroupName: !Ref InstanceSecurityGroup
ElasticacheCluster:
  Type: 'AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster'
  Properties:    
    Engine: memcached
    CacheNodeType: cache.t2.micro
    NumCacheNodes: '1'
    VpcSecurityGroupIds:
      - !GetAtt 
        - ElasticacheSecurityGroup
        - GroupId

Memcached Nodes in Multiple Availability Zones

The following example launches a cache cluster with three nodes, where two nodes are created in us-west-2a and one is created in us-west-2b.

JSON

{
    "myCacheCluster": {
        "Type": "AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster",
        "Properties": {
            "AZMode": "cross-az",
            "CacheNodeType": "cache.m3.medium",
            "Engine": "memcached",
            "NumCacheNodes": "3",
            "PreferredAvailabilityZones": [
                "us-west-2a",
                "us-west-2a",
                "us-west-2b"
            ]
        }
    }
}

YAML

myCacheCluster:
  Type: 'AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster'
  Properties:
    AZMode: cross-az
    CacheNodeType: cache.m3.medium
    Engine: memcached
    NumCacheNodes: '3'
    PreferredAvailabilityZones:
      - us-west-2a
      - us-west-2a
      - us-west-2b

See also