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ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a managed in-memory caching service for Valkey, Redis OSS, and Memcached. This card covers the basic network setup and client installation needed to connect from an EC2 instance.

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Port 6379: Valkey or Redis OSS
Ports 6379 and 6380: ElastiCache Serverless
Ports 11211 and 11212: Memcached

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  • Valkey
  • Redis OSS
  • Memcached
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon VPC
  • AWS IAM
  • Security groups
  • valkey-cli

Source: Setting up ElastiCache. Checked 2026-11-03.