diff --git a/config/settings/container/base.py b/config/settings/container/base.py
index 8fad4fa1243fd69ff311be156f09c57dff12a4e1..4765852f5f2a01556862bee12a4684c8d1b2384d 100644
--- a/config/settings/container/base.py
+++ b/config/settings/container/base.py
@@ -84,6 +84,32 @@ AWS_SES_REGION_ENDPOINT = get_from_env('AWS_SES_REGION_ENDPOINT',
 AWS_SES_AUTO_THROTTLE = 0.25
 ALERT_EMAIL_FROM = get_from_env('DJANGO_ALERT_EMAIL_FROM')
 
+# AWS Elasticache settings:
+AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR = get_from_env('DJANGO_AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR')
+CACHES['default'] = {
+        'BACKEND': 'django_elasticache.memcached.ElastiCache',
+        'LOCATION': AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR,
+        'OPTIONS' {
+            'IGNORE_CLUSTER_ERRORS': [True,False],
+        },
+    }
+MIDDLEWARE = [
+    'core.middleware.maintenance.MaintenanceModeMiddleware',
+    'events.middleware.PerformanceMiddleware',
+    'core.middleware.accept.AcceptMiddleware',
+    'core.middleware.api.ClientVersionMiddleware',
+    'core.middleware.api.CliExceptionMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware',
+    'core.middleware.proxy.XForwardedForMiddleware',
+    'user_sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'ligoauth.middleware.ShibbolethWebAuthMiddleware',
+    'ligoauth.middleware.ControlRoomMiddleware',
+]
+
 
 # Priority server settings ----------------------------------------------------
 PRIORITY_SERVER = False
@@ -112,6 +138,7 @@ DATABASES = {
         'PORT': os.environ.get('DJANGO_DB_PORT', ''),
         'OPTIONS': {
             'init_command': 'SET storage_engine=MyISAM',
+            'CONN_MAX_AGE': 3600,
             # NOTE: for mysql>=5.7 this will need to be changed to
             #'init_command': 'SET default_storage_engine=MyISAM',
         },
diff --git a/gracedb/static/css/override.css b/gracedb/static/css/override.css
index 643b5f23b7a7dcee3cb3ec21abe95c10df427a79..96bfcbf93351dc0645c103da3f002f8b0ec4e2a9 100644
--- a/gracedb/static/css/override.css
+++ b/gracedb/static/css/override.css
@@ -11,11 +11,3 @@
   border-color: #FFFFFF;
 }
 
-ul {
-  list-style-position: outside;
-}
-
-li {
-list-style-position: inside;
-text-indent: -1em;
-}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 98331bc6a37a9a69ecd88b175b214ff54346a654..7e3117bdf7d47e6d8c1340deed4050918f13def6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ packaging==17.1
 phonenumbers==8.8.11
 python-ldap==3.1.0
 python-memcached==1.59
+# Install django-elasticache along with python memcached:
+git+git://github.com/gusdan/django-elasticache.git#egg=django-elasticache
 scipy==1.2.1
 sentry-sdk==0.7.10
 service_identity==17.0.0