Amazon ElastiCache vs Azure Managed Redis
Amazon ElastiCache
aws.amazon.com
Azure Managed Redis
azure.microsoft.comSide by side
| Figure | Amazon ElastiCache | Azure Managed Redis |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.09/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 4 |
| Spec score · Caching Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.3 (#15) |
| Security | ElastiCache supports encryption in transit and at rest, IAM authentication, Valkey or Redis OSS AUTH, and role-based access control. | All tiers support private endpoints, TLS encryption, and Microsoft Entra authentication. |
| What it does | Amazon ElastiCache is a managed cloud service for deploying, operating, and scaling distributed in-memory caches and data stores. | Azure Managed Redis is a Microsoft-operated in-memory data store based on Redis Enterprise software and hosted on Azure. |
Plans
Amazon ElastiCache
- AWS Free TierFree
- Backup storage$0.09 a month
- ElastiCache Serverless$6 a month
- ElastiCache Serverless$6 a month
- Database Savings PlansPrice not published
- On-demand nodesPrice not published
Azure Managed Redis
- One Year Reserved (High Availability)Price not published
- PAYG One Node (Non-High Availability)Price not published
- PAYG Two Node (High Availability)Price not published
- Three Year Reserved (High Availability)Price not published
In their own words
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache is a managed caching service compatible with Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS, with performance described as microsecond latency. Customers can deploy a serverless cache or a node-based cluster. ElastiCache Serverless monitors compute, memory, and network use and scales vertically and horizontally as demand changes. It replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and offers a 99.99% availability SLA for each cache. Listed uses include application and semantic caching, data and session stores, and leaderboards. It can act as a front-end cache for Amazon RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, and DynamoDB, and improve performance with EC2 and EMR. Security options include encryption in transit and at rest, IAM authentication, Valkey or Redis OSS AUTH, and role-based access control. CloudWatch provides more than 40 operational metrics at no additional charge. Valkey serverless pricing starts at $6 a month, billed according to stored data in GB-hours and requests measured in ECPUs. Data tiering is unavailable with ElastiCache Serverless.
Azure Managed Redis
Azure Managed Redis has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.