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Tuesday, 16. December 2025

Open Source: Inside 2025’s 4 Biggest Trends (from The New Stack)

AI was big in 2025, but so were many other developments and worries. The biggest open source stories in 2025

The post Open Source: Inside 2025’s 4 Biggest Trends appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 15. December 2025

Perform Point-In-Time-Recovery (PITR) in Valkey/Redis (from Percona Database Blog)

♦This article explains how you can perform Point-in-time-Recovery (PITR) in Valkey/Redis. Requirements To perform PITR, you need to have append-only logging enabled. By default, AOF in Valkey/Redis only records the operations that have been executed against the instance, not when they were executed. For that, we need to enable the aof-timestamp-enabled parameter. So your Valkey/Redis […] [...]

Friday, 12. December 2025

How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork (from The New Stack)

TOKYO — Forking an open source project is never a first choice. It is divisive, dangerous, and politically risky. But

The post How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork appeared first on The New Stack.

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How to Properly Secure Your Valkey Deployment (from Valkey Blog)

Most of the production security incidents I've helped debug started with misconfigurations rather than zero-days or sophisticated exploits.

Security misconfiguration ranks as A05 in the OWASP Top 10:2021, with 90% of applications tested showing some form of misconfiguration. That's staggering. And when it comes to infrastructure like Valkey, the stakes are even higher - your cache often s [...]

Thursday, 11. December 2025

Aiven Provider for Terraform version 4.48.0 now available (from Aiven Product updates)

This version of the Aiven Terraform Provider adds write-only password support to service user resources, including aiven_kafka_user, aiven_mysql_user, aiven_opensearch_user, aiven_pg_user, and aiven_valkey_user. You can now manage passwords for these service users securely without storing them in your state file by using the new

Wednesday, 10. December 2025

Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports same-slot WATCH command (from AWS What's New)

Today, we are announcing that Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the WATCH command for same-slot transactions, helping developers build more reliable applications with improved data consistency in high-concurrency scenarios. With this launch, the WATCH command makes transactions conditional, ensuring they execute only when monitored keys remain unchanged.

For ElastiCache Serverl [...]


Rotate SSL/TLS Certificates in Valkey/Redis Without Downtime (from Percona Database Blog)

♦If your Valkey/Redis deployments use SSL/TLS, you will eventually need to rotate the TLS certificates. Perhaps it is because the certificates are expiring, or you made mistakes when creating them, or it could be that the private key has been leaked. This article explains the process of rotating the TLS/SSL certificates used by Valkey/Redis deployments […] [...]

Monday, 08. December 2025

Security updates for Monday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, krita, lasso, and libpng1.6), Fedora (abrt, cef, chromium, tinygltf, webkitgtk, and xkbcomp), Oracle (buildah, delve and golang, expat, python-kdcproxy, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, sssd, thunderbird, and valkey), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), and SUSE (git-bug, go1, and libpng12-0). [...]

Friday, 05. December 2025

Community Erosion Post License Change: Quantifying the Power of Open Source (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on its community. To summarize the findings:  37.5% of contributors (9 of 24) stopped contributing to Redis after the fork Valkey grew from 18 to 49 contributors in 18 months Valkey averages 80 PRs/month in 2025 […] [...]

Security updates for Friday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, gimp:2.8, go-toolset:rhel8, ipa, kea, kernel, kernel-rt, pcs, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, systemd, and valkey), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (alexvsbus, CuraEngine, fcgi, libcoap, python-kdcproxy, texlive-base, timg, and xpdf), Mageia (digikam, darktable, libraw, gnutls, python-django, unbound, webkit2, and xkbcomp), Oracle (b [...]

Aiven for Valkey™ clustering: out now in limited availability (from Aiven Product updates)

We are excited to announce the launch of Aiven for Valkey™ clustering in limited availability. This managed solution provides scalable, distributed in-memory data storage with built-in high availability.

Aiven for Valkey clustering automatically partitions your data across multiple nodes (shards), enabling you to handle larger datasets and higher traffic loads than a single-node deployment [...]

Tuesday, 02. December 2025

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 1 (from Severalnines' Blog)

Repatriation, Control, and the Start of Santa’s Database Modernization Journey Welcome to the first of a 6 part holiday series called, How ClusterControl Saved Christmas! Releasing twice a week, each part will take a look at issues and solutions around operational control and continuity for modern data workloads from what we hope is a fun […]

The post How ClusterControl Saved Christ [...]


Community Recap: Percona.Connect London 2025, Building the Future of Open Source Together (from Percona Community Blog)

Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing practical, technical insights for DBAs, DevOps engineers, and developers. The main takeaway was clear: Stability, Openness, and Automation are essential for modern, large-scale data infrastructure.

Top Discussions & Key Takeaways 1. [...]

Monday, 01. December 2025

Security updates for Monday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, cups, gimp, ipa, kernel, libssh, mingw-expat, openssl, pcs, sssd, tigervnc, and valkey), Debian (gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect, mistral-dashboard, pagure, python-mistralclient, pytorch, qtbase-opensource-src, sogo, tryton-server, and unbound), Fedora (cef, drupal7, glib2, linux-firmware, migrate, pack, pgadmin4, rnp, and unbound), Slackwar [...]

Thursday, 27. November 2025

Security updates for Thursday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kdeconnect, libssh, and samba), Fedora (7zip, docker-buildkit, and docker-buildx), Oracle (bind, buildah, cups, delve and golang, expat, firefox, gimp, go-rpm-macros, haproxy, kernel, lasso, libsoup, libtiff, mingw-expat, openssl, podman, python-kdcproxy, qt5-qt3d, runc, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, valkey, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-ser [...]

Wednesday, 26. November 2025

Lower cost and latency for AI using Amazon ElastiCache as a semantic cache with Amazon Bedrock (from AWS Database Blog)

This post shows how to build a semantic cache using vector search on Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey. As detailed in the Impact section of this post, our experiments with semantic caching reduced LLM inference cost by up to 86 percent and improved average end-to-end latency for queries by up to 88 percent. [...]

Build persistent memory for agentic AI applications with Mem0 Open Source, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, and Amazon Neptune Analytics (from AWS Database Blog)

Today, we’re announcing a new integration between Mem0 Open Source, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, and Amazon Neptune Analytics to provide persistent memory capabilities to agentic AI applications. This integration solves a critical challenge when building agentic AI applications: without persistent memory, agents forget everything between conversations, making it impossible to deliver personalized [...]

Tuesday, 25. November 2025

Amazon Ads upgrades to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey to achieve 12% higher throughput and save over 45% in infrastructure costs (from AWS Database Blog)

Amazon Ads enables businesses to meaningfully engage with customers throughout their shopping journey, reaching over 300 million audience in the US alone. Delivering the right ad to the right customer in real time at a global scale requires highly available, low-latency infrastructure capable of processing tens of millions of requests per second. In this post, […] [...]

Monday, 24. November 2025

Breakthroughs Are Just Boring Improvements That Pile Up (from Momento Blog)

Engineering wins look dramatic from the outside. From the inside, they're months of small, unglamorous changes - the kind nobody celebrates until they compound into something that looks impossible.

The post Breakthroughs Are Just Boring Improvements That Pile Up appeared first on Momento.

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Sunday, 23. November 2025

Why Nextdoor Migrated to Valkey: A Q&A with Slava Markeyev and Meet Bhagdev. (from ODBMS.org)

Q1. Could you start by giving us an overview of Nextdoor’s technical architecture and the specific use cases where you rely on in-memory data stores? What scale and performance requirements does your platform demand,... [...]

Saturday, 22. November 2025

Valkey 9.0 Introduces Multi-Database Clustering, Atomic Slot Migration, and Major Performance Gains (from InfoQ)

The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0, the open-source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. The latest major version introduces atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and full support for numbered databases in cluster mode, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second.

By Renato Losio [...]

Friday, 21. November 2025

Percona Brings Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres (from The New Stack)

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last week, premium database service provider demonstrated its new technology for encrypting data at rest on

The post Percona Brings Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres appeared first on The New Stack.

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Tuesday, 18. November 2025

Cache Rebalancing Was Broken. Here’s How Valkey 9.0 Fixed It (from Momento Blog)

Few things make SREs more nervous than rebalancing a cache cluster. You know the feeling. You add a node, trigger a rebalance, and suddenly latency graphs start jumping. It’s a familiar risk of the job, especially when your cache sits between your users and your database. A small configuration mistake here can suddenly unleash a […]

The post Cache Rebalancing Was Broken. Here’ [...]


Aiven for Valkey™ version 8.1 (from Aiven Product updates)

Aiven for Valkey™ version 8.1 is now available on the Aiven Platform. It introduces multiple improvements on top of version 8.0, including:

Performance improvements

  • New hashtable implementation: Reduces the average memory needed for key-value pairs and the number of random memory accesses. It also improves throughput by approximately 10% on pipeline workloads when not using I/O [...]

Thursday, 13. November 2025

Distributing Data in a Redis/Valkey Cluster: Slots, Hash Tags, and Hot Spots (from Percona Database Blog)

♦When scaling Redis or its open source fork Valkey, a single instance can cause a bottleneck. The solution is to create a sharded cluster, where the cluster partitions data across multiple nodes. Understanding how this partitioning works is crucial for designing efficient, scalable applications. This article explores the mechanics of key distribution, the use of […] [...]

Tuesday, 11. November 2025

Security updates for Tuesday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, expat, kernel, osbuild-composer, qt6-qtsvg, runc, valkey, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (incus), Fedora (cef and dotnet8.0), Mageia (strongswan), Red Hat (fence-agents and python-requests), SUSE (chromium, colord, erlang26, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libsoup, python-django, thunderbird, tiff, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (intel-microcode and rust [...]

Monday, 10. November 2025

How Alight Solutions achieved 60% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

Alight Solutions is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that has focused its operations on integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, and employee experience solutions. In this post, we share how Alight Solutions transformed their caching infrastructure using ElastiCache while maintaining strict performance requirements, achieving over 60% cost reduc [...]

Saturday, 08. November 2025

Redis Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered after 13 Years (from InfoQ)

Redis recently released a security advisory regarding CVE-2025-49844. This critical (CVSS 10.0) use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in Lua scripting could allow authenticated attackers to execute remote code on older versions of Redis and Valkey with Lua scripting enabled. Developers are urged to upgrade to patched releases as soon as possible.

By Renato Losio [...]

Friday, 07. November 2025

How to Set Up Valkey, The Alternative to Redis (from Percona Database Blog)

♦New to Valkey? This guide walks you through the basics and helps you get up and running. Starting with new tech can feel overwhelming, but if you’re ready to explore Valkey, you probably want answers, not some fancy sales pitch. Let’s cut to the chase: Switching tools or trying something new should never slow you […] [...]

Security updates for Friday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, libsoup, mariadb:10.5, and sssd), Debian (chromium, keystone, and swift), Fedora (apptainer, buildah, chromium, fcitx5, fcitx5-anthy, fcitx5-chewing, fcitx5-chinese-addons, fcitx5-configtool, fcitx5-hangul, fcitx5-kkc, fcitx5-libthai, fcitx5-m17n, fcitx5-qt, fcitx5-rime, fcitx5-sayura, fcitx5-skk, fcitx5-table-extra, fcitx5-unikey, fci [...]

Designing smarter caches with Valkey 9.0’s numbered databases (from Momento Blog)

Valkey 9.0 introduces numbered databases in cluster mode - a subtle change that simplifies multi-tenant design, data isolation, and atomic data updates.

The post Designing smarter caches with Valkey 9.0’s numbered databases appeared first on Momento.

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Wednesday, 05. November 2025

Valkey 9.0 In-Memory Data Store Brings Atomic Slot Migrations, Clustered Databases (from Linux Today)

Discover Valkey 9.0, the advanced in-memory data store featuring atomic slot migrations and clustered databases for enhanced performance and reliability.

The post Valkey 9.0 In-Memory Data Store Brings Atomic Slot Migrations, Clustered Databases appeared first on Linux Today.

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Monday, 03. November 2025

Building secure Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey deployments with Terraform (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post we show you how to build a secure Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey cluster using Terraform, implementing best practices and comprehensive security controls including encryption, authentication, and network isolation. [...]

Wednesday, 29. October 2025

Resharding, Reimagined: Introducing Atomic Slot Migration (from Valkey Blog)

Managing the topology of a distributed database is one of the most critical and challenging tasks for any operator. For a high-performance system like Valkey, moving data slots between nodes —a process known as resharding— needs to be fast, reliable, and easy.

Clustered Valkey has historically supported resharding through a process known as slot migration, where one or more of the 16,384 [...]

Monday, 27. October 2025

Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads (from The New Stack)

The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project’s launch

The post Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.

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Friday, 24. October 2025

Valkey 9.0 – The Next Generation of Caching (from Momento Blog)

Valkey 9 is the best demonstration of the dream of the open source model. It boosts stability at scale, improves developer experience, and is faster than ever.

The post Valkey 9.0 – The Next Generation of Caching appeared first on Momento.

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Thursday, 23. October 2025

GroundTruth reduces costs by 45% and improves reliability migrating from Aerospike to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

GroundTruth, an advertising platform leading the way in location- and behavior-based marketing, empowers brands to connect with consumers through real-world behavioral data to drive real business results. As our advertising platform scaled to process increased volume of ad requests and third-party segment ingestion, maintaining our Aerospike-based caching infrastructure introduced significant opera [...]

Tuesday, 21. October 2025

Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second (from Phoronix)

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release... [...]

Valkey 9.0 Delivers Performance and Resiliency for Real-Time Workloads (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)

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Valkey 9.0: innovation, features, and improvements. (from Valkey Blog)

For Valkey's second major release, Valkey 9.0 brings innovation, long-requested features, and improvements to classic features updated for today’s workloads. Read on to find out all the team packed into this release.

Atomic Slot Migrations

Atomic slot migrations fundamentally changes how Valkey migrates data from node-to-node inside the cluster. Prior to Valkey 9.0, data migrated in the c [...]

Monday, 20. October 2025

Scaling a Valkey Cluster to 1 Billion Request per Second (from Valkey Blog)

The upcoming Valkey 9.0 release brings major improvements in the resilience of large clusters, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second, all while ensuring bounded recovery time. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how the Valkey clustering system works, along with the architectural improvements and rigorous testing that made this level of scale p [...]

Monday, 13. October 2025

Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. You can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI—with latencies as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall. [...]

Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS What's New)

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. Customers can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with latency as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall.

Key use cases include semantic caching for large language mode [...]

Thursday, 09. October 2025

CVE-2025-49844 - Redis/Valkey - Lua Use-After-Free Vulnerability (from Aiven Product updates)

On October 3rd, 2025, Redis released details on CVE-2025-49844.

This particular vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution using a specially crafted Lua script.

This affects all Redis and Valkey versions that have Lua scripting support.

This issue is resolved in:

  • Redis: 8.2.2+, 8.04+, 7.4.6+, 7.2.11+, 6.2.20+

Friday, 03. October 2025

Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions. [...]

Thursday, 02. October 2025

How Valkey 8.1 Handles 50 Million Sorted Set Inserts (from Valkey Blog)

When you run infrastructure at scale, the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings. Sorted sets (ZSETs) are the backing data structure for far more than leaderboards. They're used for time‑ordered feeds, priority queues, recommendation rankings and more. Each entry carries per‑item overhead; when you're inserting tens of millions of items, those bytes accumulate into gigabytes. The la [...]

Wednesday, 01. October 2025

Valkey 8.1 vs Redis 8.2: Memory Efficiency at Hyperscale (from Momento Blog)

Valkey 8.1 uses 28% less memory than Redis 8.2 in our 50M sorted set benchmark. See the throughput and memory data from real-world hyperscale testing.

The post Valkey 8.1 vs Redis 8.2: Memory Efficiency at Hyperscale appeared first on Momento.

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Tuesday, 30. September 2025

Tackling the Cache Invalidation and Cache Stampede Problem in Valkey with Debezium Platform (from Percona Database Blog)

♦There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. This classic joke, often attributed to Phil Karlton, highlights a very real and persistent challenge for software developers. We’re constantly striving to build faster, more responsive systems, and caching is a fundamental strategy for achieving that. But while caching offers […] [...]

Introducing Hash Field Expirations (from Valkey Blog)

One of the great strengths of Valkey has always been its built-in ability to expire keys. This simple but powerful mechanism lets developers keep their datasets fresh, automatically clear caches, or enforce session lifetimes without additional logic. But there has always been one limitation: expiration worked at the level of whole keys. If you stored multiple fields in a hash, you could set a TT [...]

Monday, 29. September 2025

Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis (from The Register)

Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching

Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…

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Thursday, 25. September 2025

Numbered Databases in Valkey 9.0 (from Valkey Blog)

If you explore Valkey’s documentation you might run across a feature called ‘numbered databases’ which allows you to separate the keyspace into (by default) 16 different databases. Digging into this feature reveals tantalizing ways to avoid key prefixing, house different workloads together on Valkey, and even perform patterns that are otherwise clunky. However, if you’ve done more research outsi [...]

Wednesday, 24. September 2025

Choosing the Right Key-Value Store: Redis vs Valkey (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Not long ago, picking an in-memory key-value store was easy. Redis was the default. Fast, simple, everywhere. Then the rules changed. Redis moved to a much more restrictive license. Suddenly, many companies had to rethink their plans, especially if they cared about staying open source or needed flexibility for the cloud. That’s when Valkey arrived. […] [...]

Tuesday, 23. September 2025

Seamlessly Migrating 15k Redis servers to Valkey (from Aiven Blog)

We are leading the way in offering a smooth path to move your current Redis® setups to a fully open-source managed Valkey service. [...]

Wednesday, 17. September 2025

Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache (from Linux Today)

Discover how Open Source Pogocache outperforms Redis and Memcache, offering enhanced caching solutions for your applications. Explore its features today!

The post Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache appeared first on Linux Today.

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Tuesday, 16. September 2025

Valkey: An Investment in Open Source (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey was founded just over a year ago to keep high-performance key/value storage in the open source community: free from vendor lock-in and restrictive licenses. Backed by contributors like AWS, Google Cloud, Ericsson, Oracle, Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, Percona, Aiven, Heroku, Verizon, Chainguard, and Canonical, the project shows how “free” in open source depends on investment: time, talent, an [...]

Wednesday, 10. September 2025

Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance" (from Phoronix)

Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache... [...]

Thursday, 04. September 2025

Reduce your Amazon ElastiCache costs by up to 60% with Valkey and CUDOS (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we show you how to save costs on Amazon ElastiCache by upgrading your cluster engine to ElastiCache for Valkey. If you’re currently using ElastiCache for Redis OSS, you can achieve up to 60% cost savings by upgrading to Valkey. [...]

Tuesday, 26. August 2025

Valkey 9.0: Enterprise-Ready, Open Source, and Coming September 29, 2025 (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Circle September 29th on your calendar! That’s when Valkey 9.0 officially drops, bringing enterprise-grade features that solve real operational headaches without the licensing restrictions or unpredictable costs you face with Redis. If you’ve been following Valkey since it forked from Redis, this release represents a major milestone. The same engineers who built Redis now work [… [...]

Tuesday, 19. August 2025

Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0 (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we explore how you can use Vercel’s v0 generative UI to build applications with a modern UI for AWS purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon ElastiCache. [...]