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Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork


AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open-source fork together.

“The major cloud service providers have all benefited commercially from the Redis open-source project so it’s not surprising that they are launching a fork within a foundation,” he wrote. The maintainers from Redis unsurprisingly did not sign on, but as David Nally, AWS’s director for open-source strategy and marketing, told me, the Valkey community would welcome them with open arms. Redis’s announcement came right in the middle of the European version of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon conference, which was held in Paris this year.

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