Azure Managed Redis is a new fully-managed, first-party Redis offering co-engineered with Microsoft Azure, allowing customers to access the latest features and advancements while ensuring full compatibility with previous versions. It's built on Redis 7.4 and supports both traditional caching and AI-specific workloads, featuring vector data structures, exact matching, geospatial queries, and fast data processing. The service offers a seamless integration with Microsoft Azure ecosystems, including Azure AI, and provides access to client libraries for popular programming languages, as well as tools like Redis Insight and Redis Copilot to help developers build and optimize their Redis applications. With its advanced features and compatibility, Azure Managed Redis is designed to deliver better performance and scalability at a lower cost than previous Redis services on Azure.