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title: AWS ElastiCache vs Redis Cloud Enterprise
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# AWS ElastiCache vs Redis Cloud Enterprise

## Pair

- **A**: AWS ElastiCache
- **B**: Redis Cloud Enterprise

## Entity A

- **Title**: [AWS ElastiCache](https://saasspecs.com/item/elasti-cache/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
- **Email**: aws-verification@amazon.com
- **Address**: 410 Terry Ave N, Seattle, Washington, 98109, United States
- **Coordinates**: 47.6225, -122.3362
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy AWS ElastiCache Stack Layer](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/)

### Summary

Fully managed in-memory data store for Redis and Memcached on AWS with VPC isolation and Multi-AZ failover.

### Description

AWS ElastiCache runs Redis and Memcached clusters with automatic failover, backup snapshots, and in-transit encryption. Teams integrate caching layers directly into VPC-bound microservice architectures.

### Expert insight

Use reserved instances for steady-state workloads and enable cluster mode for horizontal shard scaling beyond single-node memory limits.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 0 MB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Instance Bound
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.02 USD/hour
- **MFA Support**: Enforced natively via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) root layers
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Supported completely via AWS IAM Identity Center directory configurations
- **Custom Domain Support**: VPC-bound endpoints with AWS PrivateLink and custom security groups
- **Supported SDKs**: Redis protocol, Node.js ioredis, Python redis-py, Java Jedis, Go redigo, AWS SDK
- **Social Providers**: Not applicable; maps straight to infrastructure resource network controls
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA Eligible, PCI-DSS Compliant, FedRAMP High
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: ElastiCache event notifications via Amazon SNS with configurable retry policies

## Entity B

- **Title**: [Redis Cloud Enterprise](https://saasspecs.com/item/redis-cloud/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://redis.io
- **Email**: support@redis.com
- **Address**: 303 Spear Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7912, -122.3929
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Redis Cloud Enterprise Stack Layer](https://redis.io/cloud/pricing/)

### Summary

Managed Redis with active-active geo distribution, Redis Stack modules, and sub-millisecond latency at global scale.

### Description

Redis Cloud delivers fully managed Redis Enterprise with automatic failover, persistence options, and modules for search, JSON, and time series. Teams run caching, pub/sub, and session stores without operating cluster topology.

### Expert insight

Enable Redis Stack modules on dedicated databases when you need full-text search alongside cache keys in one cluster.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 30 MB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 1,000 Commands/sec
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 1 USD/GB
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Redis Cloud console MFA and SAML-enforced organization login
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML, OIDC, and RBAC
- **Custom Domain Support**: VPC peering and private service connect on Enterprise deployments
- **Supported SDKs**: Redis protocol, Node.js ioredis, Python redis-py, Java Jedis, Go redigo
- **Social Providers**: Google and corporate SSO for Redis Cloud account management
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR on Enterprise tiers
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Redis Streams consumer groups with pending-entry replay and dead-letter patterns

## Facts (machine-readable)

| axis | unit | a_value | b_value | a_display | b_display |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier Allowance | MB | 0 | 30 | 0 MB | 30 MB |
| Rate Limit Cap | Commands/sec |  | 1000 | Instance Bound | 1,000 Commands/sec |
| Session Lifetime | Hours | 24 | 24 | 24 Hours | 24 Hours |
| Overage Fee per 1k MAU | USD/hour | 0.017 | 1 | 0.02 USD/hour | 1 USD/GB |

## Metrics

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 0 MB / 30 MB
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Instance Bound / 1,000 Commands/sec
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours / 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.02 USD/hour / 1 USD/GB

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

- [AWS ElastiCache](https://saasspecs.com/item/elasti-cache/?format=md) (a)
- [Redis Cloud Enterprise](https://saasspecs.com/item/redis-cloud/?format=md) (b)