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Category: Amazon ElastiCache

Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0. This brings the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to address the performance and capability requirements of applications as they grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, such as real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching. In this post, we explore how these enhancements help customers build faster applications, streamline architectures, and support new real-time and AI-driven workloads.

Announcing aggregations on Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries, so you can filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in your cache with a single query. This post walks through the use cases that aggregations unlock, and shows how they work by building a faceted browsing engine using Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey.

Valkey turns two

Two years ago, Valkey emerged as a community-driven response to the need for a truly open, vendor-neutral alternative to Redis. In this post, we’ll look back at two years of progress, highlighting the rapid adoption of Valkey, the innovations delivered by the community, and what these developments mean for the future of modern caching and […]

AWS purpose-built database recovery: A guide to business continuity and disaster recovery strategies

This post addresses recovery challenges in multi-database architectures, focusing on both low-consistency and mission-critical scenarios. We explore practical strategies for implementing resilient recovery mechanisms across Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and other AWS database services.

Migrating to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey: Best practices and a customer success story

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.

Optimize LLM response costs and latency with effective caching

In this post, we talk about the benefits of caching in generative AI applications. We also elaborated on a few implementation strategies that can help you create and maintain an effective cache for your application.

MaiCoin case study: Blue/green upgrade from Amazon ElastiCache Redis to Valkey

MaiCoin is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage platform in Taiwan. The MaiCoin platform previously ran on a set of Amazon ElastiCache deployment clusters on Redis OSS. This post explores MaiCoin’s practical approaches using RedisShake for migrating from Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey using blue/green deployment strategies.

Inside Booking.com’s ultra-low latency feature platform with Amazon ElastiCache

As a global leader in the online travel industry, Booking.com continuously works to improve the travel experience for its users. Latency is a key factor in achieving this—nobody likes waiting for their search results to be returned. In this post, we share how Booking.com designed a well-architected Amazon ElastiCache-based feature platform, achieving ultra-low latency and high throughput, to ensure the best possible user experience.