Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache

Published
October 13, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-elasticache-vector-search/

Amazon ElastiCache Vector Search Now Generally Available

Amazon ElastiCache now supports vector search, enabling customers to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings with low latency and high recall. This feature is available with Valkey version 8.2 on node-based clusters in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.

Key use cases include semantic caching for large language models (LLMs) and multi-turn conversational agents, recommendation engines, anomaly detection, and more.

What to do

  • Create a Valkey 8.2 cluster using the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI.
  • Upgrade existing clusters to Valkey 8.2 with no downtime.
  • Read the blog for more information.
  • Check the ElastiCache documentation for supported commands.

Source: AWS release notes

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