Fwd: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

And Amazon expands further towards the PaaS side of things.

Luckily, though, we don't have to pay more for the feature, since this
isn't much more than a small node running memcached.  We just
need to continue evolving our formulas.


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From: Amazon Web Services <no-reply-aws at amazon.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:53
Subject: Announcing Amazon ElastiCache
To: "gustavo at niemeyer.net" <gustavo at niemeyer.net>




Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

We are excited to announce the public beta launch of Amazon
ElastiCache, a new web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate,
and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the
performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve
information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching system, instead of
relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. Amazon ElastiCache is
protocol-compliant with Memcached, a widely adopted memory object
caching system, so code, applications, and tools that you use today
with your existing Memcached environments will work seamlessly with
the service. Amazon ElastiCache simplifies and offloads the
management, monitoring, and operation of in-memory cache environments,
enabling your engineering resources to focus on the differentiating
parts of your applications. The service is ideal for many read-heavy
application workloads (such as social networking, gaming, media
sharing and Q&A portals) or compute-intensive workloads (such as a
recommendation engine).

Using Amazon ElastiCache, you can add an in-memory cache to your
application architecture in a matter of minutes. With a few clicks of
the AWS Management Console, you can launch a Cache Cluster consisting
of a collection of Cache Nodes, each running Memcached software. You
can scale the amount of memory associated with your Cache Cluster in
minutes by adding or deleting Cache Nodes to meet the demands of your
changing workload. In addition, Amazon ElastiCache automatically
detects and replaces failed Cache Nodes, providing a resilient system
that mitigates the risk of overloaded databases, which slow website
and application load times. Through integration with Amazon
CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache provides enhanced visibility into key
performance metrics associated with your Cache Nodes.

We are pleased to share this exciting announcement with you. You can
visit Amazon ElastiCache detail page to learn more about the benefits
of the service. You can easily get started with Amazon ElastiCache by
viewing a quick demo or reviewing the Getting Started Guide, and
launch a pre-configured Cache Cluster in minutes.

You may also want to review the updated AWS Service Terms.

Sincerely,
The AWS Team

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