{"id":12550,"date":"2012-01-30T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/amazon-elasticache\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:18:25","slug":"amazon-elasticache","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/28212\/amazon-elasticache","title":{"rendered":"Amazon ElastiCache"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_amazon_elasticache_mean\">What Does Amazon ElastiCache Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Amazon ElastiCache is a cloud caching service that increase the performance, speed and redundancy with which applications can retrieve data by providing an in-memory database caching system.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon ElastiCache is developed by Amazon Corporation and is available within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) suite of applications. 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