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Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency

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Amazon ElastiCache has introduced version 8.0 for Valkey, bringing significant performance and efficiency improvements:

  • ElastiCache Serverless now scales to 5 million requests per second, up to 5x faster than version 7.2
  • Node-based ElastiCache offers improved memory efficiency, using 32 bytes less memory per key
  • Valkey is an open-source key-value datastore backed by over 40 companies
  • Upgrade can be done in a few clicks without downtime across all AWS regions
  • Supports migration from ElastiCache version 7.2 or Redis OSS

The release demonstrates AWS's commitment to open-source performance, scalability, and memory optimization for caching solutions.



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