At Redisconf 2018 in San Francisco last month, we announced the public beta of Cloud Memorystore for Redis, a fully-managed in-memory data store service. Today, the public beta is available for everyone to try. Cloud Memorystore provides a scalable, more secure and highly available Redis service fully managed by Google. It’s fully compatible with open source Redis, letting you migrate your applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with zero code changes.

As more and more applications need to process data in real-time, you may want a caching layer in your infrastructure to reduce latency for your applications. Redis delivers fast in-memory caching, support for powerful data structures and features like persistence, replication and pub-sub. For example, data structures like sorted sets make it easy to maintain counters and are widely used to implement gaming leaderboards. Whether it’s simple session caching, developing games played by millions of users or building fast analytical pipelines, developers want to leverage the power of Redis without having to worry about VMs, patches, upgrades, firewall rules, etc.

Early adopters of Cloud Memorystore have been using the service for the last few months and they are thrilled with the service.