If you are a web based business such as an e-retailer hosting your business with Amazon cloud infrastructure, you may be in for a pleasant surprise. Amazon has just announced in-memory caching feature on its cloud services which will enable transactions such as e-retailing to go faster.
ElastiCache, announced on Monday, is software for caching frequently accessed pieces of data 'in-memory' — or in RAM — within the cloud. This speeds response times when querying sprawling databases or running complex calculations, and so should help companies to increase the responsiveness of applications on their websites, according to Amazon.
"Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task," AWS's chief technology officer Werner Vogels wrote in a blog post on Monday.
Traditionally ecommerce or web apps have relied on caching in middleware technologies to achieve similar outcome but often this an expensive undertaking given depedency on expensive software licences and niche skills of finetuning middleware software. If its claims are true, Amazon will make this in-memory caching to boost apps response speed relatively easier to achive.
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