This page contains the following information:
- Best practices to upgrade the version of your Memorystore for Valkey instance
- How your instance behaves during a version upgrade operation
For more information about upgrading your instance's version, see Upgrade the Valkey version of an instance.
Best practices to upgrade your instance's version
This section provides guidance for upgrading the version of your Memorystore for Valkey instance.
Before you run a version upgrade operation, we recommend that you create a backup of your instance's data.
To increase the speed and reliability of the version upgrade operation, upgrade your instance during periods of low instance traffic. To learn how to monitor instance traffic, see Monitor instances.
Make sure that you use our best practices for memory management to manage the memory of your instance.
Before you upgrade the version of your instance, make sure that you become familiar with the newer version to see how this version impacts your application.
Version upgrade behavior
Memorystore for Valkey upgrades the version of your instance by updating all nodes within the instance. This upgrade process is similar to a maintenance operation. For more information about the process, see Create-before-destroy lifecycle strategy.