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Creating an ElastiCache Memcached cluster

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Creating an ElastiCache Memcached cluster

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- [Man] With the general understanding, of the ElastiCache service, let's open up the AWS Web Console and create a Multi-Node Memcached Cluster. From the ElastiCache dashboard I select the Memcached blank in the left hand nav. To get started, I simply click the create button. Curiously, even though it knows I'm coming from Memcached the default cluster engine is Redis. I changed that by selecting Memcached. I'm going to specify a cluster name of Memcached demo. I then see the engine version compatibility. Opening up the drop-down, shows you the versions of Memcached that are currently supported. In a new tab, I open up memcached.org. Notice that the latest, stable Memcached release as of this recording, is 1.6.6. Meanwhile, the most recent release available in ElastiCache is 1.5.16. If 1.6.6, contains features that are absolutely critical to your needs, then you'll need to go with that instead of using ElastiCache.…

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