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At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the general availability of Azure Managed Redis, a fully-managed, first-party service built in partnership with Redis. Ready for production workloads globally, Azure Managed Redis marks a major milestone for developers looking to build high-performance, real-time applications with the speed and reliability of Redis, fully managed on Azure.
Call to action: get started with Azure Managed Redis in the Azure Portal.
Key updates:
- Up to 15x performance improvements over Azure Cache for Redis
- 99.999% availability with multi-region Active‑Active replication
- Support for Redis 7.4 (with Redis 8 coming soon)
- New modules including RedisJSON, vector search, bloom filters, and time-series
- Flexible SKUs that let you scale memory and compute independently
Navigate the new Azure Managed Redis in the Azure Portal
Azure Managed Redis also comes with an updated Azure Portal experience which simplifies how you create, configure, and manage your Redis instances. Whether experimenting or deploying to production, the portal gives you full control with a few clicks.
Step-by-step guide to deploying in the Azure Portal
Want to see Azure Managed Redis in action? This quick walkthrough video shows how to set up Azure Managed Redis inside the Azure Portal:
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
- How to configure your Active-Active instance for high availability and low latency
- Setting up geo-replication across regions for 99.999% availability
- SLA Key tips and best practices to get started quickly
- No code required — just the Azure Portal and a few minutes of your time!
Azure Managed Redis is perfect for cloud architects, developers, and IT pros looking to build resilient, globally available Redis-backed applications on Azure.
Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, speeding up your web services, or just getting started with Redis, now’s the time to explore what Azure Managed Redis can do. To learn more, head to our product page for more information or contact your Microsoft sales representative. To get started, provision Azure Managed Redis in the Azure Portal today.
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