Valkey GLIDE 1.2 adds new features from Valkey 8.0, including AZ awareness

AWS adds support for Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in the open-source Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, high-performance, and highly available client, and it’s pre-configured with best practices from over a decade of operating Amazon ElastiCache. Valkey GLIDE is compatible with versions 7.2 and 8.0 of Valkey, as well as versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2 of Redis OSS. With this update, Valkey GLIDE will direct requests to Valkey nodes within the same Availability Zone, minimizing cross-zone traffic and reducing response time. Java, Python, and Node.js are the currently supported languages for Valkey GLIDE, with further languages in development. With this update, Valkey GLIDE 1.2 also supports Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB’s JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data type, allowing customers to store and access JSON data within their clusters. In addition, it supports MemoryDB’s Vector Similarity Search, empowering customers to store, index, and search vectors for AI applications at single-digit millisecond speed. Valkey GLIDE is open-source, uses the Apache 2.0 license, and works with any Valkey or Redis OSS datastore, including [Amazon ElastiCache](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/) and [Amazon MemoryDB](https://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/). Learn more about it in this [blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-valkey-glide-an-open-source-client-library-for-valkey-and-redis-open-source/) and submit contributions to the [Valkey GLIDE GitHub repository](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide).