AWS Memcached

AWS provides a variety of managed caching services, but the equivalent to Memcached is Amazon ElastiCache with the Memcached engine.

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service that makes it easy to deploy and operate an in-memory cache in the cloud. It supports two popular caching engines: Redis and Memcached.

To use Memcached with Amazon ElastiCache, you would need to follow these general steps:

1. Create an ElastiCache cluster with the Memcached engine using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.

2. Configure your applications to use the Memcached cluster as a caching layer. Typically, you would modify your application code or configuration to direct certain read-heavy or frequently accessed data to the cache instead of querying the database every time.

3. Update your application to handle cache misses gracefully. If the data is not found in the cache (cache miss), your application should be prepared to fetch the data from the database and store it in the cache for future use.

4. Monitor the performance and health of your ElastiCache cluster to ensure it’s running smoothly and optimally.