Author: Suresh Raavi

In this post, we provide a guide to migrating from Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey, incorporating different migration strategies and AWS best practices. Additionally, we highlight a customer’s successful migration to Valkey, which maintained their robust performance standards while achieving a 20% reduction in ElastiCache cluster costs.

Vacasa is North America’s leading vacation rental management platform, revolutionizing the rental experience with advanced technology and expert teams. In the competitive short-term vacation property management industry, efficient systems are critical. To maintain its edge and continue providing top-notch service, Vacasa needed to modernize its primary transactional database to improve performance, provide high availability, and reduce costs. In this post, we share Vacasa’s journey from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB to Amazon RDS for MySQL, and finally to Amazon Aurora, highlighting the technical steps taken and the outcomes achieved.