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Dec 2023
18m 30s

#644: Amazon ElastiCache Serverless

Amazon Web Services
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In this episode, we’re diving deep into one of the recent announcements from AWS re:Invent, the release of Amazon ElasticCache Serverless. This new option allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. Jillian Forde is joined by Abhay Saxena (Principal Technical Product Manager for In- ... Show More
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