# Integrate your Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey

DevFeed: [Integrate your Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/integrate-your-spring-boot-application-with-amazon-elasticache-using-spring-data-valkey-4702.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/integrate-your-spring-boot-application-with-amazon-elasticache-using-spring-data-valkey/>)

Author: Chris Gillespie

Published: 2026-08-18T16:38:30Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [AWS Database Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aws-database-blog.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [amazon-elasticache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-elasticache.md>), [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [aws-iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-iam.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [intermediate-200](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intermediate-200.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [spring-boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spring-boot.md>), [technical-how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-how-to.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial for adding Amazon ElastiCache caching to a Spring Boot application with Spring Data Valkey. It covers dependencies, Valkey configuration, TTL settings, encryption, and migration compatibility with Spring Data Redis.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to integrate a Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey for caching. This walkthrough covers adding caching to a serverless cache, plus the advantages of Spring Data Valkey over Spring Data Redis: native AWS IAM authentication, Availability Zone affinity, and OpenTelemetry observability.