Microsoft and Redis jointly announced the general availability of Azure Cache for Redis, Enterprise tiers, which is an enhanced version of the service that was already serving customers with production Redis workloads in public preview since last October. The new GA release includes previews of active geo-replication, which allows developers to create geo-distributed applications with local sub-millisecond Redis read/write latencies and much better resilience to failure. Additionally, persistence to disk and managed recovery from persistence are now available, providing durability in rare cases where data stored in RAM is lost due to underlying compute failure. The Enterprise tiers are powered by Redis Enterprise Software and operated as a fully managed service by Azure, allowing developers to create, manage, and consume Enterprise tier featured Redis workloads natively in the Azure environment. The new features address key use-cases such as global session management, world-wide fraud detection, geo-distributed search, and real-time inventory management, enabling operators to bring the power of Redis to their organizations' most mission-critical applications.