@drewdevault in this case I'd actually think it is...

Since MS resells Redis...

Reminds me of back in the day when Mosaic thought they were so smart for getting a % of every unit sold deal from MS. Then MS gave IE away for free, and x% of $0.00 was... ?

Hmm... and is Azure still Windows only these days???

IMHO they do like to be in control, but they like $ a bit more