This is a guest post by Charles Hsiao, Site reliability engineer (SRE) at MaiCoin, in partnership with AWS.
MaiCoin is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage platform in Taiwan. It supports major assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC), among others. The MaiCoin platform previously ran on a set of Amazon ElastiCache deployment clusters on Redis OSS.
Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation backed by more than 40 companies. Valkey is a drop-in replacement of Redis OSS, developed by long-standing Redis OSS contributors and maintainers, and has seen rapid adoption since project inception in March 2024. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is actively contributing to the Valkey project. With growing market interest in Valkey, organizations including MaiCoin are seeking reliable migration methodologies and best practices.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey…