Although we had to implement a self-healing cache mechanism directly within our application, switching to Memcached saves us $5,000 per month. In cloud architecture, we often prioritize performance, ...

AWS is releasing Amazon ElastiCache Serverless, a new serverless option that allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns.

Google is launching its Memorystore platform for Memcached, an open source, in-memory data store that is a caching layer for databases. In a blog post by Gopal Ashok, product manager for Memorystore, ...

Google today announced the beta of Memorystore for Memcached, a new service that provides a fully managed in-memory datastore that is compatible with the open-source Memcached protocol. It will join ...

1.6.0 brings significant new features and fixes to memcached. The external flash storage (https://memcached.org/extstore) system is now compiled by default. The ...

Record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are on a tear this year, and new data shows that DNS amplification attacks have jumped 700% worldwide since 2016. In the first quarter of ...

Researchers have identified a technique that can halt a memcached amplification attack. DDoS protection firm Corero reported victims could send a "flush_all" command back to the attacking servers to ...

A newly discovered “kill switch” may be able to address distributed denial-of-service attacks that use a vulnerability in the Memcached memory caching system to amplify data volume, the same ...

The 1Tbps-plus memcached amplification attacks that hammered GitHub and other networks over the past week can be disarmed with a "practical kill switch", according to DDoS protection firm Corero. The ...