ElastiCache (Memcached) resources
We recommend that you begin by reading the following sections, and refer to them as you need them:
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Service Highlights and Pricing – The product detail page
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Getting Started – The Getting started with Amazon ElastiCache (Memcached) section includes an exame that walks you through the process of creating a cache cluster, authorizing access to the cache cluster, connecting to a cache node, and deleting the cache cluster.
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Performance at Scale – The Performance at scale with Amazon ElastiCache
white paper addresses caching strategies that enable your application to perform well at scale.
If you want to use the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), you can use these documents to help you get started:
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Amazon Command Line Interface documentation
This section provides information on downloading the Amazon CLI, getting the Amazon CLI working on your system, and providing your Amazon credentials.
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Amazon CLI documentation for ElastiCache
This separate document covers all of the Amazon CLI for ElastiCache commands, including syntax and examples.
You can write application programs to use the ElastiCache API with a variety of popular programming languages. Here are some resources:
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Amazon Web Services provides a number of software development kits (SDKs) with support for ElastiCache for Memcached. You can code for ElastiCache using Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, and other languages. These SDKs can greatly simplify your application development by formatting your requests to ElastiCache, parsing responses, and providing retry logic and error handling.
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If you don't want to use the Amazon SDKs, you can interact with ElastiCache directly using the Query API. You can find troubleshooting tips and information on creating and authenticating requests and handling responses in this section.
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Amazon ElastiCache API Reference
This separate document covers all of the ElastiCache API operations, including syntax and examples.