Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of Redis OSS, backed by 40+ companies with rapid adoption since project inception in March 2024.
Hundreds of thousands of customers use ElastiCache to improve their database and application performance and optimize costs. ElastiCache for Valkey provides a fully managed experience built on open-source technology while leveraging the security, operational excellence, 99.99% availability, and reliability from AWS. It is ideal for use cases such as caching, leaderboards, and session stores. To lower costs, ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey minimum data storage is 100MB, 90% lower than ElastiCache Serverless for Redis OSS. If you are using ElastiCache reserved nodes, when you switch from ElastiCache for Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey, you retain your existing discounted reserved node rates across all node sizes within the same family.
ElastiCache for Valkey is now available in all AWS regions. You can upgrade from ElastiCache for Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey in a few clicks with zero downtime. You can get started using the AWS Management Console, Software Development Kit (SDK), or Command Line Interface (CLI). For more information, please visit the ElastiCache features page, getting started blog, and documentation.