Can I run Aiven services within my own cloud account?

Yes, we offer a Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment model for strict control requirements or to take advantage of your cloud provider discounts. Please contact sales for more information, or check out our BYOC documentation .

What’s included in Aiven customer support?

We proactively monitor all services 24/7/365. Our personnel are automatically alerted to any service anomalies for immediate resolution. Additionally, your account includes email and chat support. Three additional support tiers are available for a fee. Learn more about support response times and plans.

What is the difference between the Aiven free plans and the Aiven free trial?

The free plans are limited in size but can be run indefinitely free of charge. The full platform free trial gives you $300 of credit for 30 days that you can use on any service types and plan sizes. You can run free services alongside your trial, they will not impact your trial credits and will continue to run after the trial has expired. For more details on the free plans, check out our documentation.

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Aiven for Caching

Aiven for Caching is compatible with legacy Redis® OSS. It is a managed, in-memory NoSQL database with a small footprint and big performance.

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The future of Caching is here: Upgrade to Aiven for Valkey now! Support for Aiven for Caching on the Aiven tenant will stop on March 31st 2025.

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What is Aiven for Valkey™, and why should you be using it?

The Linux Foundation launched Valkey™ last year, an open-source Redis® with total compatibility and portability from open-source Redis® fork, released under the three-clause BSD license. Aiven is proud to be an early supporter of the project and to provide it on its platform.

Aiven for Valkey™ offers the following benefits:

Fully compatible with Redis® version 7.2 and below
Open source and permissively licensed, not locking you in with any vendors
Actively developed and supported by The Linux Foundation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle and Aiven!
Innovative and cutting-edge capabilities being added and roadmapped to Valkey™ such as Vector Search, multi threading in the near term, and clustering and sharding in the medium term

Please note that support for Aiven for Caching on the Aiven tenant will stop on March 31st 2025.

After February 15th 2025, users will no longer be able to start a new Aiven for Caching service, but existing services up until version 7.2 will still be available until end of life. Avoid any service interruption by upgrading to Aiven for Valkey now!

After the end-of-life date of March 31st 2025, all Aiven for Caching services will be automatically upgraded to Aiven for Valkey™.

Important Note: If you are an Aiven customer through a cloud marketplace, please note that you will be able to upgrade to Aiven for Valkey at a later date on your corresponding marketplace. Your service will run in its current state until further notice. Contact your Aiven account manager for more information.

How it works

What can you do with Aiven for Caching?

Set up a fully managed in-memory NoSQL datastore in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, or Terraform provider. Aiven for Caching is fully compatible with legacy Redis® OSS so you can connect it to your existing tech stack with ease.

Get a fully managed, in-memory NoSQL database – with Aiven for Caching

Aiven for Caching is Redis® compatible in-memory, open source NoSQL datastore that is perfect as a fast data store, cache, or lightweight message broker. It’s a complementary tool for your data architecture, serving as a flexible data structure server to store and recall data on the fly.

With Aiven, you can get high-performance data caching or integrate Aiven for Caching easily for observability purposes such as logging and monitoring.

Aiven for Caching provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

Manage with the tools you want:

Terraform

GUI

CLI

API

Postman

Resources

What is Redis? (blog)

Aiven for Caching (docs)

Podcast

What's happening in the caching world: Redis, Valkey and DragonFly

Conversation about one of the most critical and often-overlooked components of the software industry—caching.

Jun 25, 2024

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Choose the ideal solution for your needs

Aiven for Caching or Aiven for Dragonfly

Aiven for Caching and Aiven for Dragonfly are both powerful solutions designed to meet the demands of your applications. If you require the ultimate in performance and scalability, then Aiven for Dragonfly is the perfect choice. For lighter workloads that prioritize cost-effectiveness and simplicity, Aiven for Caching offers a robust and affordable alternative based on open-source Redis®.

	Aiven for Caching	Aiven for Dragonfly
Memory size (storage)	Scales to 100GB and more, depending on the required performance	Supports up to 1TB+ of data per instance
Throughput	Suitable for workloads of 70.000 QPS or less	Built for workloads exceeding 70,000 QPS
Features	Provides a complete open-source Redis® compatible experience	Includes all open-source Redis® features, plus JSON support and vector search
Other		Memcached compatibility

Benefits

Benefits of Aiven for Caching

With Aiven’s fully managed service, you get all the features of open-source Redis® without any of the infrastructure stress.

Because Aiven makes setting up services easy, you can snap Aiven for Caching into your data pipelines in a matter of minutes, and get back to developing. All the installation, management, and updating is taken care of, and we provide an extensive set of tools and integrations out-of-the-box.

Simply put, with Aiven, you get legacy Redis® OSS compatible functionality ready to go.

99.99% uptime. 100% human support.

Downtime is a disaster for critical applications. That’s why Aiven makes sure you get 99.99% uptime. Plus, you get access to a 100% human support team — in case you need a helping hand.

Scale up or down easily. Whenever you need.

Increase the memory in your cluster, create new clusters, switch cloud providers or expand to new regions. Redis has never been this easy.

Automatic updates and upgrades. Zero stress.

Stressing about applying maintenance updates or version upgrades to your clusters? We’ll take care of them for you so that you can focus on turning your data into actionable insights.

Super-transparent pricing. No networking costs.

Aiven for Caching comes with all-inclusive pricing. No hidden fees or charges, just one payment that covers networking to data storage, and everything in-between.

Customer use cases

How customers use Aiven for Caching

Caching for databases

Caching means fewer database access calls, which helps to reduce the amount of traffic and instances required. As Aiven for Caching can process data with sub-millisecond latency it’s ideal for caching use.

Chat and messaging applications

Aiven for Caching supports Pub/Sub with pattern matching and many different varieties of data structure, such as lists, sorted sets and hashes. This enables support for high-performance chat rooms, real-time comment streams, social media feeds and server intercommunication.

Gaming leaderboard applications

Redis is a popular choice among game developers looking to build real-time leaderboards or scoreboards. “Sorted Sets” within Aiven for Caching are a built-in data structure that makes leaderboards simple to create and manage.

Features

Key features of Aiven for Caching

Setup

Flexible, fast and stress-free

Production-ready clusters in 10 minutes
Deploy to the cloud of your choice with 5 public clouds and 100+ regions supported
High performance clusters based on carefully selected instance types and storage options
Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment model supported for strict control requirements

Connect

Integrate with your data infrastructure

Secure network connectivity using VPC peering, PrivateLink or TransitGateway technologies
Integrate with your favorite observability tooling — from Datadog to Prometheus, Jolokia, and more — or use Aiven observability tools for enhanced monitoring and logging

Control

DevOps-friendly management and development

Manage your Aiven for Caching cluster using Aiven Console (GUI), CLI or Terraform tools
Scale, fork and upgrade with just a few clicks
Guaranteed compatibility with open source software
Migrate easily between clouds and regions

Enjoy

Reliable, secure and zero lock-in

Self-healing platform
Zero downtime during scaling, upgrading, and other management operations
Automatic backups every 12 hours, depending on your plan
Secure and compliant solution — ISO 27001:2013, SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI/DSS

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Pricing plans

Scale up or down. Pay only for what you use.

Starting at just $19 a month, prices vary based on the number of nodes and your storage needs. Hourly billing saves you money. Change your plan anytime at no extra cost.

Cloud

Region

Hobbyist
starting from
$30/month
$0.04/hour
- 1 dedicated VM
- 2 CPU per VM
- 1 GB RAM per VM
Add-ons
Static IP Addresses
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Startup
starting from
$105/month
$0.14/hour
- 1 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 4-240 GB RAM per VM
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Add-ons
Static IP Addresses
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Business
starting from
$105/month
$0.14/hour
- 2 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 1-240 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Startup, plus high availability
Add-ons
Static IP Addresses
Get started for free
Premium
starting from
$160/month
$0.22/hour
- 3 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 1-240 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Business, plus a second standby node
Add-ons
Static IP Addresses
Get started for free

Need help? Use our Pricing Calculator to get a recommended plan based on your unique data needs and requirements.

Data retention is only limited by storage. For information about annual discount or plan capacity beyond the listed plans, please contact us

FAQ

Resources

Learn how to use Aiven for Caching

Aiven Docs

Documentation

Getting started with Aiven for Caching, core concepts, how-to's, and more.