We are using AWS with AEM 5.6.1. We would like to cache some of the data that we get from 3rd parties and DBs/Legacy systems. AWS comes with ElasticCache and we are thinking of using that. Is there any object caching that AEM provides out of box? Are there any recommendations around how to do object...

In our project we need to have AEM use a standalone SOLR search server and index all the AEM content in this server. Has anyone implemented this? How do we configure AEM to not use built in Lucene but search and fetch results from an external search engine?