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“The Unstoppable Trio: Valkey Redis Fork Receives Support from AWS, Google, and Oracle”

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The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open-source fork together. At the time, Redis said that despite this change for the modules, “the license for open-source Redis was never changed. This fork originated at AWS, where longtime Redis maintainer Madelyn Olson initially started the project in her own GitHub account.