diff --git a/memorystore/redis/gae_standard_deployment/app.yaml b/memorystore/redis/gae_standard_deployment/app.yaml
index 644e28c54e5..56c1fbfe582 100644
--- a/memorystore/redis/gae_standard_deployment/app.yaml
+++ b/memorystore/redis/gae_standard_deployment/app.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 # [START memorystore_app_yaml_standard]
-runtime: python37
+runtime: python314
 entrypoint: gunicorn -b :$PORT main:app
 
 # Update with Redis instance details
diff --git a/memorystore/redis/gke_deployment/Dockerfile b/memorystore/redis/gke_deployment/Dockerfile
index 94ccd7d9766..81eb6dbe254 100644
--- a/memorystore/redis/gke_deployment/Dockerfile
+++ b/memorystore/redis/gke_deployment/Dockerfile
@@ -12,33 +12,23 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-# The Google App Engine python runtime is Debian Jessie with Python installed
-# and various os-level packages to allow installation of popular Python
-# libraries. The source is on github at:
-#   https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docker
-FROM gcr.io/google_appengine/python
-
-# Create a virtualenv for the application dependencies.
-# If you want to use Python 2, add the -p python2.7 flag.
-RUN virtualenv -p python3.4 /env
-
-# Set virtualenv environment variables. This is equivalent to running
-# source /env/bin/activate. This ensures the application is executed within
-# the context of the virtualenv and will have access to its dependencies.
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV /env
-ENV PATH /env/bin:$PATH
+# Use the official lightweight Python image.
+# https://hub.docker.com/_/python
+FROM python:3.14-slim
 
 # Note: REDISHOST value here is only used for local testing
 # See README.md on how to inject environment variable as ConfigMap on GKE
 ENV REDISHOST 127.0.0.1
 ENV REDISPORT 6379
 
+ENV APP_HOME /app
+WORKDIR $APP_HOME
+
 # Install dependencies.
-ADD requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
-RUN pip install -r /app/requirements.txt
+COPY requirements.txt ./
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 # Add application code.
-ADD . /app
+COPY . ./
 
 CMD ["gunicorn", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8080", "main:app"]
-