The Pulumi platform now supports Redis Cloud, a managed Redis service offered by Redis Labs, allowing developers to manage Redis Cloud resources using familiar programming languages like Node.js, Python, and Go. With Pulumi, users can automate the creation and configuration of Redis Cloud resources, reducing manual tasks and improving infrastructure reliability through testing and validation tools. The Redis Cloud provider for Pulumi is built as a bridge provider through Terraform, offering similar functionality with added benefits of using Pulumi. By following a step-by-step walkthrough, developers can create their first Redis resource using Pulumi, assembling a Redis Cloud flexible subscription in AWS us-east-1 and a database within this subscription with specific memory and throughput settings.