Redis Cloud vs Percona for Valkey: hosted Redis or Valkey on your infrastructure
Compare capacity limits, scaling responsibilities, support, and uptime commitments before choosing Redis Cloud or Percona for Valkey.
Choose Redis Cloud when you want a hosted Redis endpoint. Choose Percona for Valkey when you want supported Valkey on infrastructure your team controls. Percona’s Expert Support advises your engineers, while ExpertOps can take on agreed database operations.
At a glance
| Dimension | Redis Cloud | Percona for Valkey |
|---|---|---|
| price (w/ 2 replicas) | no like-for-like public rate | request quote |
| availability | AWS, Google Cloud, Azure | architecture-dependent |
| engine + version | Redis 8 | architecture-dependent |
| uptime SLA | 99.999% | unknown |
| support SLA | from 15 minutes | from 15 minutes |
| maximum size | 50 TB+ | architecture-dependent |
| cluster operations | fully-managed | advisory support or scoped ExpertOps |
About Redis Cloud
Redis Cloud is Redis’s managed database service, offered through Essentials and Pro plans. It runs the Redis engine and provides hosted databases with managed client routing. Cloud availability, capacity, and connectivity options depend on the plan.
About Percona for Valkey
Percona provides Valkey software packages, commercial support, and managed database operations for customer-selected infrastructure. Its services cover on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Expert Support provides advice, while ExpertOps performs database operations within an agreed scope.
Recent updates
September 22, 2026 - Redis Cloud introduced Smooth Scaling. It improves Pro’s resizing process, while your team still initiates the capacity change.
September 2, 2026 - Momento introduced Cluster and Flex capacity for Momento Cache. Both provide dedicated, managed Valkey resources. Cluster exposes topology choices, while Flex selects topology within capacity bounds, giving teams a choice in how they configure capacity while Momento operates the cluster.
Choose who operates your Valkey deployment
Percona brings Valkey to your own environment with prebuilt, validated, security-scanned packages for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployments. We recommend Valkey over Redis for its broad backing across the technology industry and continued advancement of the state of the art.
A routine database patch or failed-node incident makes the operating choice concrete. The work you hand over depends on the service you buy. Expert Support provides advice that your team implements. ExpertOps performs scoped monitoring, tuning, maintenance, and approved database changes. Your team retains architecture, topology, and change approvals. The underlying operating system, Kubernetes, and applications remain outside Percona’s Managed Services scope.
Redis Cloud supplies the hosted endpoint and manages the database service. Its proxy simplifies client-side shard routing. Regional coverage varies by plan, and private connectivity requires Pro.
Budget for capacity and retained operations
Your team initiates Redis Cloud Pro’s capacity changes. Essentials also has plan-specific throughput and bandwidth ceilings, with at most 10,000 concurrent connections. Pro has no fixed database-level connection limit, but its practical capacity depends on infrastructure, configuration, and workload.
Pro starts at $200 per month.
Request a Percona quote for the database work you want specialists to handle. Keep the platform responsibilities you retain explicit when comparing that offer with a hosted endpoint.
Try Momento Cache
If patching and failed-node work consume your team’s attention, Momento Cache offers managed health, failover, rolling updates, and security patches around dedicated Valkey capacity.
Momento Cache puts dedicated, high-performance Valkey behind a managed gateway that keeps client integration stable as your application grows. Choose Cluster for direct control over instance types, shards, and replicas, or Flex to set capacity and replication bounds while Momento selects the topology. Both include built-in autoscaling and fully managed cluster operations.
Talk to a Momento solution engineer to evaluate the capacity model and configuration that fit your workload.
Frequently asked questions
Does Percona publish a hosted Valkey uptime SLA?
Percona’s public service descriptions and subscription policies do not establish a hosted Valkey uptime percentage. (Percona subscription policies)
Who handles Redis Cloud Active-Active client failover across regions?
Your application routes client connections between regions. Active-Active provides eventually consistent replication and managed local failover. Its 99.999% uptime commitment measures failure across all databases in the deployment.
How quickly can support respond?
Redis Cloud and Percona each offer initial support response from 15 minutes.