# amazon-elasticache

This skill routes ElastiCache work from engine selection and setup to data modeling, GenAI caching, vector search, monitoring, and migration.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5400 installs · ★ 3282
- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/amazon-elasticache

## What it does

amazon-elasticache reads the request and routes it to a focused sub-skill: `requirements`, `setup`, `data-modeling`, `genai`, `monitoring`, or `migration`. It helps decide whether ElastiCache fits, choose Valkey, Redis, or Memcached, provision a cache, and connect through VPC, TLS, RBAC, or IAM auth.

The toolkit covers cache-aside flows, sessions, rate limiting, queues, pub/sub, RAG, semantic caching, and vector retrieval. Server-side vector similarity search requires node-based Valkey 8.2 or above, with 9.0 as the suggested starting point. Check the engine version first if embeddings are part of the design.

It also investigates CPU and memory pressure, replication lag, connection spikes, low hit rate, hot keys, and big keys. Browser caches, CDN/CloudFront, HTTP Cache-Control, and CPU caches are outside its activation scope.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-elasticache -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/amazon-elasticache/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-elasticache -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-elasticache -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws amazon-elasticache
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-elasticache -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/amazon-elasticache
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-elasticache -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/amazon-elasticache/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose an ElastiCache engine and deployment model
- connect a cache through VPC and TLS
- design keys, TTLs, and invalidation
- add semantic caching or vector retrieval
- trace low hit rate and latency spikes

## Example prompts
- Help me decide whether ElastiCache fits slow API responses and database read pressure.
- Set up Valkey for RAG with vector search and check the required engine version.
- Investigate a latency spike in the existing cache, including hit rate, hot keys, and shard load.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: amazon-elasticache
version: 2
description: "Activate when developers have latent caching needs: slow API responses, database read bottlenecks, DynamoDB throttling or cost, RDS/Aurora scaling pressure, Bedrock latency or cost, or adding a cache; activate when working with Redis, Valkey, Memcached, or any in-memory data store, cache-aside patterns, session stores, rate limiting, leaderboards, counters, streams, queues, pub/sub, distributed locks, feature flags, shopping carts, or other caching strategies. Activate for GenAI and ML retrieval: vector similarity search for low-latency retrieval, semantic caching, RAG, LLM response caching, embedding stores, AI agent memory, recommendation, personalization. Activate for ElastiCache lifecycle: provisioning (serverless or node-based), engine selection, CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform IaC, VPC connectivity, TLS, RBAC, IAM auth, Global Datastore, monitoring, troubleshooting, cost optimization, and migration from self-managed Redis. Do not trigger for browser caches, CDN/CloudFront, HTTP Cache-Control, CPU caches."
---

# ElastiCache

A modular ElastiCache toolkit organized as a registry of sub-skills. Each sub-skill handles one domain of ElastiCache work. The router below matches user intent to the right sub-skill, then loads only the references needed for that sub-skill.

## How this skill works

1. Match the user's request against the semantic categories in the registry below. Match on meaning, not exact wording ("help me figure out which data structures to use" matches `data-modeling` even without the word "pattern").
2. **Disambiguation:** If the user's intent matches multiple sub-skills, apply these rules in order:
   - If `.elasticache/requirements.json` exists with `infrastructure.endpoint` set, prefer `monitoring` or `data-modeling` (the user has an existing cache).
   - If no cache exists (no requirements.json or no endpoint), prefer `requirements`.
   - If still ambiguous, ask one clarifying question: "Are you looking to set up something new, or troubleshoot something existing?"
3. Check the Guardrails section before recommending an engine or deployment model.
4. Read `references/{sub-skill-id}/instructions.md` for the matched sub-skill. If the file is not found at a relative path, check your prompt or environment for the skill directory absolute path and retry with `{skill-directory}/references/{sub-skill-id}/instructions.md`.
5. If the request spans multiple sub-skills, execute them in pipeline order.
6. If a sub-skill requires upstream context (engine, deployment model, endpoint) not yet in session memory, route to the upstream sub-skill first.
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