Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0, bringing new capabilities to customers building real-time, AI-driven, and high-throughput applications on AWS. As applications grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, teams often face the overhead of managing separate search infrastructure, throughput ceilings that force over-provisioning, and complex workarounds for data lifecycle management and multi-tenant architectures. Valkey 9.0 addresses these challenges directly with built-in search, engine-level performance improvements, and new operational flexibility. Valkey 9.