Enterprise-grade caching with Azure Managed Redis [Video]

Azure’s new fully managed, in-memory database service based on Redis Enterprise brings capabilities and performance beyond its Azure Cache for Redis offering.

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Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kubernetes and associated tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has regularly talked about one overarching goal for Azure: to make everything serverless. It’s why many tools we used to install on dedicated servers are now offered as managed services and Azure manages the underlying infrastructure. Services like Azure Container Instances allow you to quickly deploy Kubernetes applications, but what of the other services necessary to build at-scale containerized applications?

One key service is a caching in-memory database. Here Azure has relied on Redis, providing support for …