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Tag: Valkey

Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB announce support for Valkey

As of October 8th 2024, we’ve added support for Valkey 7.2 on Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB, our fully managed in-memory services. In this post, we discuss the AWS contributions to Valkey, AWS commitment to making Valkey more accessible for ElastiCache and MemoryDB customers, and how customers can start using it in their applications.

Best practices: Valkey/Redis OSS clients and Amazon ElastiCache

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 […]