Amazon ElastiCache vs Momento Cache
Amazon ElastiCache
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| Figure | Amazon ElastiCache | Momento Cache |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.09/mo | $0.02/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · Caching Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.1 (#17) |
| Compliance | AWS lists ElastiCache as supporting SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO, MTCS, C5, PCI, HIPAA, and FedRAMP programs. | Momento says it performs a SOC 2 Type II audit and can support workloads requiring GDPR and HIPAA compliance. |
| Security | ElastiCache supports encryption in transit and at rest, IAM authentication, Valkey or Redis OSS AUTH, and role-based access control. | Momento says its Cache API requires TLS connections, encrypts data in memory and at rest, and authenticates each request with an API key or short-lived scoped token. |
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
Momento Cache
- Flex capacity — Standard tier$0.02 a month
- Flex capacity — Performance tier$0.03 a month
- Cluster nodes (on-demand)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.
Momento Cache
Momento Cache has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.