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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/15/2022

"Microsoft Azure"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Azure is all-in-one cloud service provider. we can access different services in one place. also fast and cloud-native support.Scalable and durable for its applications. also provides its own IAM features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

Microsoft Azure has some security issues or we can say that vulnerability. Also difficult to manage and need the expertise to handle azure services and platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark L.

Chief Security Officer/VP of Technology/Chief Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2021

"Mediocre at best"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Quick to deploy initially with mostly standard Redis features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

Very pricey at $50-100/GB per month or so

Complicated tiers with different features, capacities and throughput

Low SLA and poor support when things go wrong

DevOps required to handle peak loads effectively

Middling performance compared to self-hosted

As with other Azure products, the API/cli would sometimes fail at creating/updating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/21/2020

"Azure Redis Cache is easy to setup and very performant"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

It couldn’t be easier to setup and integrates well within the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

I still think there are more integration points that Microsoft needs to explore (e.g. with Azure Functions) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Philip S.

Tech Lead

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/21/2019

"Slow, unreliable, random restarts"

0.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

The built in security that it offers is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

Everything else - this is so bad to use that I just booted up a VM and used that instead.

Random restarts leading to your working data being lost, performance being up to 100 TIMES slower than if you just hosted it yourself.

Unreliable networking - just becomes unreachable for periods of time.

Overpriced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:

Don't. If you need to use Redis and you are on azure then boot up a linux VM and run it that way. Do not choose their managed service.

If you need to use Redis and you don't have to use azure, don't use azure at all and pick a more reliable cloud hosting provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shared working memory set between large distributed applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nathan G.

Mentor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2018

"Easy Redis deployments"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Really easy to stand up and usage based pricing makes it cheap for most scenarios. Its just plain old redis, but it can be scaled and georedundant without much effort at all from the person configuring and using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

Nothing really. Its a pretty neat service that just works. If I ahd to pick, the unpredictability of the price of the service from month to month is not my favorite thing, but it often works out to be lower than we budgeted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:

Don't hesitate if you're already in the azure stack. Its a solid service that simplifies the running of redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're caching data about our users. We're also using it for service location in a makeshift api gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amy S.

Solutions Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/6/2018

"Fast Database Supporting Many Data Types"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

It was very easy to implement and set up on Azure Portal. We use the basic cache mainly for testing and find it very secure and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

The time it takes to create the Redis Cache is a bit too long. It would also be beneficial if we could override the default SSL ports, which is not an existing feature yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:

Before purchasing, note that you cannot test both basic and standard cache deployments therefore having to delete them between both cases. Shutting down is not an option either so keep in mind once you pay for it, you cannot shut it down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use this for testing. The pricing is not bad at all and for what it offers, the value is reasonable. We wanted to scale to the Standard tier, but that was not an option available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2018

"A secure data cache and messaging broker service by Microsoft Azure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

1: It's cache-aside pattern to load data items into the cache only as needed.

2: It caches user session pretty well and when I integrated it with our testing application, it successfully cached every test user's data.

3: Supports distibuted transactions where in the event of failover, everything is rolled back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

There is no SLA for the basic tier which forces us to go for standard tier even for our testing applications which adds to the cost. I'd appreciate even if there is 95% SLA in this tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:

1: Few operations like using KEYS" command, is expensive and should be avoided by the caching and reporting team.

2: Creating new connections is expensive and increases latency hence won't serve the purpose of Redis cache, so reuse connections. Close old connections in case you are creating new.

3: Use premium tier for production systems (Don't risk with basic/standard tier) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were usually querying the complete data which added to the load on our database. This was done usually to evaluate the demand for a particular store. Using Redis, we can cache frequently used data and query that, without adding to the load on our database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/17/2019

"Easy use of Redis as a service"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Instantiation of a Redis cluster is a breeze, with just a few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

Logging and metric views can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tessa W.

Outreach Coordinator and Social Media Manager

Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/13/2018

"Redis Cache is a quality product"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Azure is very dependable, it is decently easy to use, and has good support for when you run into problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

It can be a time-consuming product to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:

Using ARC can and should be pretty straighforward. Be sure to investigate all of the new features to make the very most of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basic data storage and access for our database. The newer additions of the program were even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hoai P.

Web Developer

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/19/2018

"Easy, fast and secure work with Azure Redis Cache"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?

Redis is an open-source in-memory database. Azure Redis Cache provides remote redis in-memory cache services that is fast, safe and secure to implement. Redis supports complex data types, kinds of abstract data structures, such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and spatial indexes. My team use Redis for caching purpose and for storing background and cron jobs. Azure Redis Cache is very fast as compared to traditional databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?

It is tricky and time taking process to setup redis for production environment and mostly pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.