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layout: "aws"
page_title: "AWS: aws_elasticache_cluster"
sidebar_current: "docs-aws-resource-elasticache-cluster"
description: |-
  Provides an ElastiCache Cluster resource.
---

# aws\_elasticache\_cluster

Provides an ElastiCache Cluster resource.

## Example Usage

```
resource "aws_elasticache_cluster" "bar" {
    cluster_id = "cluster-example"
    engine = "memcached"
    node_type = "cache.m1.small"
    port = 11211
    num_cache_nodes = 1
    parameter_group_name = "default.memcached1.4"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `cluster_id` – (Required) Group identifier. This parameter is stored as a
lowercase string

* `engine` – (Required) Name of the cache engine to be used for this cache cluster.
 Valid values for this parameter are `memcached` or `redis`

* `engine_version` – (Optional) Version number of the cache engine to be used.
See [Selecting a Cache Engine and Version](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/UserGuide/SelectEngine.html)
in the AWS Documentation center for supported versions

* `node_type` – (Required) The compute and memory capacity of the nodes. See
[Available Cache Node Types](http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/details#Available_Cache_Node_Types) for
supported node types

* `num_cache_nodes` – (Required) The initial number of cache nodes that the
cache cluster will have. For Redis, this value must be 1. For Memcache, this
value must be between 1 and 20

* `parameter_group_name` – (Required) Name of the parameter group to associate
with this cache cluster

* `port` – (Required) The port number on which each of the cache nodes will
accept connections. For Memcache the default is 11211, and for Redis the default port is 6379.

* `subnet_group_name` – (Optional, VPC only) Name of the subnet group to be used
for the cache cluster.

* `security_group_names` – (Optional, EC2 Classic only) List of security group
names to associate with this cache cluster

* `security_group_ids` – (Optional, VPC only) One or more VPC security groups associated
 with the cache cluster

* `tags` - (Optional) A mapping of tags to assign to the resource.


## Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

* `cache_nodes` - List of node objects including `id`, `address` and `port`.
   Referenceable e.g. as `${aws_elasticache_cluster.bar.cache_nodes.0.address}`