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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 […]

Amazon Aurora DSQL for global-scale financial transactions

In this post, we first examine why traditional approaches to distributed consistency fall short for financial workloads. We then walk through how the Amazon Aurora DSQL architecture addresses these challenges, and apply it to three production use cases: core banking, global spend management, and digital currency infrastructure. We close with implementation considerations and how to get started with the Amazon Aurora DSQL Free Tier

How Amazon DocumentDB on AWS Graviton4 R8g instances delivers 63% better Sysbench benchmark results

This post demonstrates how in our testing upgrading to Graviton4-based R8g instances on Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 5.0 and 8.0 delivers up to 63% better performance compared to Graviton2-based R6g instances on the Sysbench benchmark. This improvement comes at only a 5% cost increase.

Troubleshoot Amazon RDS for Oracle to Amazon Redshift DMS migrations with AWS DevOps Agent

In this post, we show how you can use AWS DevOps Agent to investigate, identify root causes of, and remediate common AWS DMS issues when migrating from Amazon RDS to Amazon Redshift. DevOps Agent is a Frontier agent that autonomously triages incidents 24/7, providing root cause analysis and recommended actions for resolution based on correlated metrics, logs, and application topology.

Timestream for InfluxDB 3 workload analysis and best practices

Selecting the right instance size for your Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 deployment is one of the most impactful decisions you’ll make when architecting your time series infrastructure. An undersized instance can lead to degraded query performance and ingestion bottlenecks, while an oversized instance means paying for unused capacity. In this blog post we will […]