Moderate to move
Azure Cache for Redis on DigitalOcean: what it becomes and what it costs.
On DigitalOcean, Azure Cache for Redis becomes Valkey on DigitalOcean Droplets, or a DigitalOcean managed database. Protocol-compatible. On Hetzner you run it yourself; where the destination sells the managed engine (DigitalOcean, OVHcloud and Scaleway for most of them) it costs roughly twice the bare server, still well under today's price.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
35% of today
A C3 (6 GB) cache is $0.254/h = $185/mo; a CX33 (8 GB) is €8.49, 35% with persistence and a replica.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
Managed Valkey / Redis at DigitalOcean, or a DigitalOcean managed database
Where DigitalOcean sells a managed cache, persistence and failover stay someone else's job; about twice the bare server.
60% of today · Easy
Hosted Redis elsewhere (Upstash, Redis Cloud)
A cache vendor next to DigitalOcean: no operations, little saving, and cross-provider latency on every call.
90% of today · Easy
Your own Azure Cache for Redis line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Azure Cache for Redis included, on DigitalOcean list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.