Azure Cache for Redis reservations

What is Azure Cache for Redis?

Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed, in-memory cache that enables high-performance and scalable architectures.

It provides an in-memory data store based on the Redis software, which improves the performance and scalability of applications that heavily use backend data stores.

Now that we know that, let’s have a look at how we can save some $ on Azure Cache for Redis!

Reservations are available for the Premium (P), Enterprise (E) and Enterprise Flash (F) tiers (Basic and Standard are not supported):

You can go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cache/ for details on what the differences are between the different tiers.
 
The One Year term discount is 36% and the Three Year discount is 55%.

Instance size flexibility is supported.
 
Pretty good discounts in my opinion!