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Fully on board, but no mention if they’ll be releasing the source used to run Redis on Azure. Do they have an exemption? A separate license?

On one hand I could see why Microsoft would back the original project, since they likely don’t want Amazon owning a replacement (elasticsearch). But I’m not sure how they plan to honour the new licensing?

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Ahh - side deal licensing.

“Redis will continue to support its vast partner ecosystem – including managed service providers and system integrators – with exclusive access to all future releases, updates, and features developed and delivered by Redis through its Partner Program. There is no change for existing Redis Enterprise customers.”

I wonder how exclusive this actually is. Did Microsoft pay a boat load of money to freeze out Amazon?

I think that is more that Amazon doesn't want to pay to support anything, and that includes Redis, so I don't think Microsoft paid for an exclusive deal.

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