Cache warfare: Azure and AWS get updated caching services

September 5, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

The competition between Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved to the caching layer: Both companies updated their caching services this week. Caching services can improve response times for applications by delivering frequently consulted data and functionality from a server’s working memory, or RAM, without calling it up from a slower hard drive.

AWS has expanded its ElastiCache service with a second popular open-source caching engine, Redis. The company has offered Memcached, on object storage cache, for some time. Like Memcached, Redis offers an in-memory key-value store, one good for storing sorted sets and lists. ElastiCache supports Redis’ master/slave replication capabilities, making it useful for offering multi-zone redundancy…

AWS’ Redis service currently is offered in beta form. To help administrators get up to speed on this new technology, AWS will hold a Web seminar on how to use Redis on Sept. 26…

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