Author: Qu Chen

Today, we’re announcing the Remote Query Cache Plugin for the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper. The plugin handles query caching automatically. It intercepts JDBC queries, caches results in Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, and serves subsequent identical queries from cache. Your only application change is prefixing queries with SQL hints. In this post, we show you how to use Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to identify queries to cache, configure the Remote Query Cache Plugin in your Java applications, and monitor cache effectiveness using Amazon CloudWatch.

May 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In this post, we cover best practices for interacting with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS resources with commonly used open-source Valkey or Redis OSS client libraries. ElastiCache is compatible with open-source Valkey and Redis OSS up to version 7.2. Redis OSS clients are compatible with […]