Amazon ElastiCache resources for first time users
We recommend that first time users begin by reading the following sections, and refer to them as needed.
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Service highlights and pricing – The product detail page
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Getting started – The Getting started with Amazon ElastiCache (Redis OSS) section includes information on creating a cache cluster. It also includes how to authorize access to the cache cluster, connect to a cache node, and delete the cache cluster.
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Performance at scale – The Performance at scale with Amazon ElastiCache
whitepaper addresses caching strategies that help 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. 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.