Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1, bringing the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to customers running latency-sensitive, high-throughput, and operationally demanding in-memory workloads on ElastiCache. In this post, we discuss how Valkey 9.1 helps you get more throughput and memory efficiency from demanding workloads while providing stronger isolation for multi-tenant and shared-cluster deployments. We also cover new commands that simplify common application and operational workflows, new observability features that give operators better visibility into engine behavior, and how ElastiCache continues to deliver the latest Valkey open source innovations in a fully managed service.