# Restricted commands
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To deliver a managed service experience, ElastiCache restricts access to certain cache engine-specific commands that require advanced privileges. For clusters running Redis OSS, the following commands are unavailable:
+ `bgrewriteaof`
+ `bgsave`
+ `config`
+ `debug`
+ `migrate`
+ `replicaof`
+ `save`
+ `slaveof`
+ `shutdown`
+ `sync`