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Author: Puneeth Komaragiri
Puneeth is a Principal Technical Account Manager at AWS. He started his journey as a Cloud Support Engineer in the Networking team where he worked on various AWS Networking & Monitoring services. He is passionate about Monitoring & Observability and Cloud Financial Management domains. He likes working with customers to help them design & architect their workloads for scale and resilience.
How Alight Solutions achieved 60% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
Alight Solutions is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that has focused its operations on integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, and employee experience solutions. In this post, we share how Alight Solutions transformed their caching infrastructure using ElastiCache while maintaining strict performance requirements, achieving over 60% cost reduction, 70-80% reduction in operational overhead, migration of gigabytes of data with sub-0.5 millisecond performance for millions of users, and a 99.99% reduction in incident rate.