In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Redis Labs to deliver Redis Enterprise as newly, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The enhanced service offering, currently in private preview, will provide customers with two new Enterprise tiers – which include Redis on Flash, modules, and the ability to create an active geo-redundant cache for hybrid-cloud architectures in the future.

Microsoft started their collaboration with Redis Labs back in 2014 with the launch of Redis Cloud on Azure. Since then the service has evolved with updates such as geo-replication support and reserved-capacity. Now, the public cloud vendor incorporates two existing offerings of Redis Labs as additional Enterprise tiers in Azure Redis Cache service providing customers with more features, higher availability, and security capabilities.

Ofer Bengal, CEO and co-founder of Redis Labs, wrote in his blog post on the new partnership announcement:

Throughout the development process, three key customer drivers were consistently top of mind: improve developer productivity, ensure operational resiliency, and ease cloud migration. Teams at both organizations were committed to building an integration that delivers these values to our customers. With the announcement of Redis Enterprise integration into Azure Cache for Redis, we meet these needs.
With the new tiers, developers can use the most up-to-date version of Redis, including its native data structures, probabilistic data structures, streams, time-series, and search data models. Furthermore, they can benefit from the native integration with other Azure services, and easily deploy a Redis cluster and scale to terabyte-sized data sets at the cost of a disk-based data store by utilizing Redis on Flash technology. Also, with the added support of the Redis modules

RediSearch, RedisTimeSeries, and RedisBloom developers can build applications for a wide variety of use cases with a single technology.

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