Announcing Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey
Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of Redis OSS. Valkey is backed by 40+ companies and has seen rapid adoption since the project was created in March 2024.
Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible database service, which provides multi-AZ durability, microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latency, and high throughput. It is ideal for use cases such as caching, leaderboards, and session stores. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you can benefit from a fully managed experience built on open-source technology while leveraging the security, operational excellence, and reliability that AWS provides. MemoryDB for Valkey also delivers the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among popular vector databases on AWS.
MemoryDB for Valkey is available in all AWS Regions that MemoryDB is available. To get started, you can create a new Valkey cluster by specifying a database name or upgrade an existing MemoryDB for Redis OSS cluster to MemoryDB for Valkey using the AWS Management Console, Software Development Kit (SDK), or Command Line Interface (CLI). For more information, please visit the MemoryDB features page, getting started blog, and documentation.