Azure Cache Redis is deprecating: migrate in an hour with Exodus and Datadog

Why attend

Azure Cache for Redis is approaching end of life. New cache creation is being disabled and existing caches will need to migrate. But the built-in migration path is manual, slow, and risky at scale. Exodus by Eden de-risks the entire process with automated, zero-downtime migrations, while Datadog provides the observability layer you need to baseline performance, monitor the cutover in real time, and validate success — so you can migrate with confidence, not guesswork.

How Exodus de-risks the migration

Traditional ACR-to-AMR migrations require manual data export/import, application downtime, and significant engineering investment. Exodus by Eden takes a fundamentally different approach:

• Zero downtime — Exodus replicates data live, so your applications never go offline during the migration
• Automatic data validation — every key is verified between source and target, catching discrepancies before they become production incidents
• Built-in rollback — if anything goes wrong, Exodus can revert to your original ACR instance instantly, so there's no point of no return
• Faster execution — what typically takes weeks of engineering effort is reduced to hours with Exodus's automated workflows
• Lower cost — eliminate the need for dedicated migration engineering teams and reduce the risk of costly post-migration incidents

Why Datadog for migration observability

Datadog Partner Solutions Architect Alessandro Lucarelli will walk through why Datadog is the essential observability layer for Azure and Redis workloads, especially during migrations:

• Establish the baseline — capture pre-migration performance metrics, traces, and logs so you know exactly what 'normal' looks like before you start
• Monitor the cutover — track the migration in real time with infrastructure monitoring, APM, and distributed tracing to catch issues the moment they appear
• Validate success — compare before-and-after performance side by side to confirm the migration met your service-level objectives and user experience expectations
• Out-of-the-box integrations — Datadog's native Azure and Redis integrations give you instant visibility without custom instrumentation
• Ongoing scalability — after the migration, Datadog continues to provide the dashboards, alerting, and log management you need to operate your Redis workloads at scale

What you'll see

Eden CEO Devon Tietjen, Redis Solutions Architect Philip Laussermair, and Datadog Partner Solutions Architect Alessandro Lucarelli walk through a real large-scale migration, covering:

• A live demo of an ACR-to-AMR migration using Exodus by Eden, from setup to cutover, with a Datadog-instrumented Rust application
• A consolidated Datadog dashboard showing Azure metrics, APM traces, and logs for the migrating application in real time
• How Exodus handles the hard parts: cluster topology changes, data type compatibility, and connection string management
• A custom Exodus migration dashboard in Datadog illustrating migration state and progress
• Cost and performance comparisons between ACR and AMR, validated with Datadog metrics
• How to plan and execute your migration with minimal team disruption and full observability

Who should attend

This session is for platform leaders, DevOps teams, and database administrators managing Redis workloads on Azure. Whether you have 5 caches or 500, you'll walk away with a clear, low-risk path to Azure Managed Redis and the observability strategy to prove the migration succeeded.