Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon ElastiCache.
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Information as of November 3, 2026.
Amazon ElastiCache now offers Valkey data tiering on Graviton4-based R8gd nodes in the Europe (Spain) Region and Graviton3-based R7gd nodes in the Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports zero-downtime online migration from self-managed Valkey and Redis OSS on Amazon EC2. Migration occurs in three steps and uses TLS and AWS Secrets Manager for security.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now offers ElastiCache Insights, a pre-built Amazon CloudWatch dashboard for node-based clusters, consolidating health, performance, and error metrics in a single view
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now publishes OpenTelemetry metrics to CloudWatch, enabling filtering and aggregation with PromQL. Detailed monitoring allows selection of full metric set at 15-second intervals.
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn node families for Valkey and Memcached, offering up to 47% higher throughput and 43% lower P99 latency.
Amazon ElastiCache supports Valkey 9.1 for node-based clusters, offering higher throughput, improved memory efficiency, and stronger access control for multi-tenant workloads
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