Python and ElastiCache - Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
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Python and ElastiCache

In this tutorial, you use the Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) to write simple programs to perform the following ElastiCache operations:

  • Create ElastiCache clusters (cluster mode enabled and cluster mode disabled)

  • Check if users or user groups exist, otherwise create them (Redis 6.0 onwards only)

  • Connect to ElastiCache

  • Perform operations such as setting and getting strings, reading from and writing to steams and publishing and subscribing from Pub/Sub channel.

As you work through this tutorial, you can refer to the Amazon SDK for Python (Boto) documentation. The following section is specific to ElastiCache: ElastiCache low-level client

Tutorial Prerequisites