You're right for sure if the service is small - Redis would be overkill. I guess I'm coming at it from the perspective I'm most used to where we use it for data

You're right for sure if the service is small - Redis would be overkill. I guess I'm coming at it from the perspective I'm most used to where we use it for data caching and session data since we have multiple servers, so handling it any other way would be more work.