Aug 18, 2026 — Managed Databases for Valkey in LA
We're happy to announce that Managed Databases now supports Valkey. This is part of the limited availability release.
Valkey is an open source in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Akamai Valkey Managed Database provides a fully managed, high-performance in-memory data store designed to accelerate AI-powered applications while helping organizations reduce infrastructure costs and operational complexity.
Note that the TLS server certificate for your Valkey Managed Database is issued from a public certificate authority (CA) Let's Encrypt. Most operating systems include Let's Encrypt in their default trust store, so most popular clients verify this certificate automatically. This means that you shouldn't need to do anything to verify this server certificate. If your client doesn't use system trust by default or excludes Let's Encrypt, follow your client's instructions to trust widely recognized CAs.
Valkey Managed Databases differs from PostgreSQL and MySQL Managed Databases, which use server certificates that a private, account-specific CA issues. You can't use this private CA to verify server certificates for Valkey instances. Use public CAs instead. Always keep certificate verification enabled when you configure clients to connect to Valkey Managed Databases.
To learn more, see the UI documentation or Linode API:
- Get Valkey Managed Database advanced parameters
- Create or restore a Valkey Managed Database
- List Valkey Managed Databases
- Get a Valkey Managed Database
- Update a Valkey Managed Database
- Delete a Valkey Managed Database
- Get Valkey Managed Database credentials
- Reset Valkey Managed Database credentials
- Patch a Valkey Managed Database
- List Managed Databases engines
- Get a Managed Databases engine
- List Managed Databases
- List Managed Databases types
- Get a Managed Databases type