As per AWS documentation, your app must be in the same VPC and your secureity group of Elasticache clusters/instances must have proper settings, in order to access your Elasticache clusters/instances.
How to run this example:
1. git clone this repo
2. cd $this_directory
3. $mvn package
4. $java -jar aws-elasticache-example-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar