Better Together: How Eden, Microsoft, Redis, and Datadog Are Solving One of the Largest Forced Database Migrations in Cloud History

A coordinated, four-party partnership to help 20,000+ enterprises migrate with zero downtime, zero code changes, and full observability.

The Problem No One Saw Coming

In October 2025, Microsoft announced the deprecation of Azure Cache for Redis (ACR), one of the most widely deployed managed database services in Azure. The timeline is aggressive: starting April 2026, enterprise customers can no longer create, restart, or scale existing ACR databases. By March 31, 2027, all remaining enterprise deployments will be permanently deleted.

The scale of the impact is staggering. Over 20,000 organizations are affected, including numerous Fortune 500 companies and thousands of enterprises that depend on Redis for everything from session management and caching to real-time AI workloads.

For most of these organizations, the migration path to Azure Managed Redis (AMR), the new, licensed Redis offering built by Redis and deployed as a first-party Azure product, is anything but straightforward. Traditional migration approaches require months of planning, manual data movement, application-level code changes, and significant downtime risk. For enterprises running hundreds of Redis instances across dozens of product teams, this adds up to a multi-month, multi-million-dollar effort with no margin for error.

That is why Eden, Microsoft, Redis, and Datadog joined forces.

Why This Partnership Exists

The goal is simple: make it as fast, safe, and seamless as possible for every affected enterprise to migrate and emerge on the other side with a better, more observable, and more capable infrastructure than they started with.

Microsoft: The Platform and the Imperative

Microsoft is the reason this migration is happening, and is committed to making it successful. Azure Managed Redis represents the future of Redis on Azure: a licensed, fully supported, AI-ready database service built in partnership with Redis. For customers, AMR offers significant cost savings (often 30% or more compared to ACR), modern features like vector search, and a roadmap aligned with Azure's broader AI strategy.

Microsoft is supporting this rollout by listing Eden on the Azure Marketplace, working closely with Azure account teams and sellers, co-hosting customer-facing events, and providing deep insights into customer needs for the product launch's success. Eden runs directly in your environment on AKS, ensuring data never leaves your infrastructure and meeting enterprise security, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements. Beyond migration, teams are using Eden to simplify observability, improve system reliability, and lay the groundwork for AI workloads on Azure.

For customers, every Eden deployment runs through the Azure Marketplace, contributing to existing drawdown commitments, requiring no new commitments or agreements to migrate.

Redis: The Technology and the Expertise

Redis built the software that powers Azure Managed Redis, giving them a deep understanding of the product, migration edge cases, and the customer landscape. Redis has been instrumental in validating Eden's migration engine, providing technical guidance, and aligning their go-to-market teams to support the effort.

That validation was not just internal. The Redis team ran a live migration test using Eden, pushing 40,000 requests per second to see where it would fail. It didn't. As Redis published on their blog: "Eden sits directly in the traffic path, so your app keeps running while the migration happens in the background." The full test, including setup, results, and comparison to traditional migration approaches, is publicly available.

Redis's professional services team has hands-on experience with the most complex ACR-to-AMR transitions, including clustering configurations, feature compatibility gaps, and SKU optimization. That expertise directly informs Eden's product, ensuring that the automated tooling handles the same scenarios that have historically required months of manual effort.

Eden is also proud to be part of the newly launched Redis Partner Network. As Redis shared: "Strong partnerships aren't just about technology. They're about how teams collaborate across product, GTM, and real customer use cases." We could not agree more.

Datadog: The Observability Layer

Migrations fail silently. A key gets dropped, latency creeps up, a connection pool saturates, and no one notices until users start complaining. That is why Datadog is embedded natively in Eden's Exodus migration platform. When you deploy Eden, Datadog comes pre-configured out of the box, giving you full visibility into the migration process and the health of both your source and destination databases from day one.

In practice, this means you get pre-built dashboards tracking every phase of the migration: baseline performance before you start, real-time metrics during the cutover, and side-by-side comparisons after completion. Infrastructure monitoring, APM, distributed tracing, and log management are all wired in, so your team can see exactly what is happening at every layer of the stack without building or maintaining custom instrumentation.

For teams already using Datadog, this is especially seamless. The same tools, dashboards, and alerting workflows you already rely on now extend to cover the most critical infrastructure event on your calendar. For teams new to Datadog, the migration becomes a natural starting point: you get enterprise-grade observability stood up and producing value from the first deployment, with capabilities that continue to pay dividends long after the migration is complete.

This is what a true partner solution looks like. It is not a migration tool and a monitoring tool sold side by side. It is a single, integrated workflow where observability is baked into every step, from analysis through cutover to validation.

Eden: The Migration Engine

Eden is the connective tissue. We built Exodus, the first and only product on the market that enables fully automated, zero-downtime, and de-risked database migrations between ACR and AMR. What traditionally requires two to three months of planning, manual intervention, and scheduled downtime, Eden compresses into a single day, with built-in rollbacks, automated testing, compatibility analysis, live traffic validation, and a custom-built agentic assistant, Adam, to help the DevOps team at every stage of the migration process.

Our goal with Exodus wasn't just to speed up migrations, but to de-risk the entire migration process. Here is how it works in practice:

Analysis. Exodus scans your existing ACR deployment and recommends optimized AMR SKUs, identifying potential cost savings and flagging any feature-compatibility gaps before you commit. Customers are often over-provisioned on ACR, and our automated analysis helps customers ensure they are properly sized and configured on AMR.

Compatibility. Exodus inspects the full configuration of your database: clustering mode, client libraries, ACL rules, keyspace notifications, private endpoint configurations, and more. It maps everything to the target AMR environment and handles the configuration automatically. Coming features include auto-generated Terraform code for customers who provision infrastructure as code.

Testing. Before touching production traffic, Eden runs automated smoke tests, mini-batch migrations, and live validation against your actual workload. Nothing proceeds until every check passes. We can even replicate your live TCP traffic and route it through Eden in parallel, simulating the full migration without touching your production systems.

Migration. Exodus supports multiple migration strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, Strangler Fig, and Big Bang. In Blue-Green mode, Eden handles dual writes automatically, with no application-side code changes required. Your applications continue running against the source while Eden synchronizes the destination in real time.

Observability. Throughout the entire process, Datadog provides full visibility. Every metric, every error, every state change is tracked and surfaced in pre-built dashboards. If something goes wrong, rollbacks can be triggered instantly based on configurable error thresholds, ensuring no downtime, even in the worst-case scenario.

The result: enterprises can migrate hundreds of databases with a fraction of the time, cost, and risk of doing it manually. And because Eden deploys in the customer's own environment on AKS, no data ever leaves their VPC, a critical requirement for regulated industries including healthcare and financial services.

What Makes This Different

Partnerships in enterprise technology are often announced with fanfare and forgotten within weeks. This one is different for a few reasons.

The forcing function is real. This is not a "nice to have" migration. Customers who do not migrate will lose their data. That urgency creates alignment across all four partners that is rare in enterprise sales. Every partner has an incentive to move quickly, and every customer has a deadline they cannot negotiate.

The solution is integrated, not stitched together. This is not four companies selling four products independently. It is one workflow, one deployment, one set of dashboards. The customer interacts with a single solution on the Azure Marketplace that draws on the strengths of four organizations working in tight coordination.

It goes beyond migration. The market is shifting from viewing migration as a project to prioritizing platform, resiliency, and architecture decisions. Eden is positioned not just as a migration tool, but as a resiliency and mobility layer that enables cross-region and cross-cloud flexibility, with infrastructure-level caching patterns and AI capabilities that extend value well beyond the initial migration event. Eden's platform includes Exodus for migrations, Eve for unified infrastructure observability and governance, and Adam for secure AI-powered querying across your entire stack.

What's Next

We are launching publicly on Azure Marketplace in April 2026. Here is what that looks like:

Azure Marketplace. Eden is available for one-click deployment, bundled with Datadog observability, directly from the Azure console. No bespoke tools, no one-off engineers, just deploy Eden, and migrate that same day.

Joint Events. Microsoft is hosting an in-person event at its New York City offices on April 21, with speakers from all four partners. Eden will be hosting a joint Webinar with Datadog and Redis on April 16, which will feature a live end-to-end migration demo showing that what used to take three months can be completed within an hour session.

Sales Activation. Datadog, Redis, Microsoft, and Eden teams are all aligned on this opportunity, so if you have any questions, reach out to your rep at any of the listed organizations.

Technical Resources. Eden's documentation, migration guides, and free database complexity assessment tools are available today. Enterprises can scope the effort, estimate savings, and understand the migration path before committing.

If you are an Azure Cache for Redis customer, the clock is ticking. But the good news is you do not have to figure this out alone. Four companies, with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, database technology, observability, and data modernization, have come together specifically to make this as painless as possible.

We built this because we believe migrations should not be a crisis. They should be an upgrade.

To learn more or schedule a migration assessment, visit eden or reach out to your Microsoft, Redis, or Datadog account team.