diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py b/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py
index 91629e89441..6dbc176f093 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def __init__(self, authority, tenant_id=None, client_id=None, encrypt=False, use
         config_dir = get_config_dir()
         self._token_cache_file = os.path.join(config_dir, "msal_token_cache")
         self._secret_file = os.path.join(config_dir, "service_principal_entries")
-        self._msal_http_cache_file = os.path.join(config_dir, "msal_http_cache.bin")
+        self._msal_http_cache_file = os.path.join(config_dir, "msal_http_cache.json")
 
         # We make _msal_app_instance an instance attribute, instead of a class attribute,
         # because MSAL apps can have different tenant IDs.
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ def _load_msal_token_cache(self):
         return cache
 
     def _load_msal_http_cache(self):
-        from .binary_cache import BinaryCache
-        http_cache = BinaryCache(self._msal_http_cache_file)
+        from .json_cache import JsonCache
+        http_cache = JsonCache(self._msal_http_cache_file)
         return http_cache
 
     @property
diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/json_cache.py b/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/json_cache.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..688119929fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/azure/cli/core/auth/json_cache.py
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+import json
+from collections.abc import MutableMapping
+
+from azure.cli.core.decorators import retry
+from knack.log import get_logger
+from msal.throttled_http_client import NormalizedResponse
+
+logger = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class NormalizedResponseJsonEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    def default(self, o):
+        if isinstance(o, NormalizedResponse):
+            return {
+                "status_code": o.status_code,
+                "text": o.text,
+                "headers": o.headers,
+            }
+        return super().default(o)
+
+
+class JsonCache(MutableMapping):
+    """
+    A simple dict-like class that is backed by a json file. This is designed for the MSAL HTTP cache.
+
+    All direct modifications with `__setitem__` and `__delitem__` will save the file.
+    Indirect modifications should be followed by a call to `save`.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, file_name):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.filename = file_name
+        self.data = {}
+        self.load()
+
+    @retry()
+    def _load(self):
+        """Load cache with retry. If it still fails at last, raise the original exception as-is."""
+        try:
+            with open(self.filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+                data = json.load(f)
+            response_keys = [key for key in data if key != "_index_"]
+            for key in response_keys:
+                try:
+                    response_dict = data[key]
+                    # Reconstruct NormalizedResponse from the stored dict
+                    response = NormalizedResponse.__new__(NormalizedResponse)
+                    response.status_code = response_dict["status_code"]
+                    response.text = response_dict["text"]
+                    response.headers = response_dict["headers"]
+                    data[key] = response
+                except KeyError as e:
+                    logger.debug("Failed to reconstruct NormalizedResponse for key %s: %s", key, e)
+                    # If reconstruction fails, remove the entry from cache
+                    del data[key]
+            return data
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            # The cache file has not been created. This is expected. No need to retry.
+            logger.debug("%s not found. Using a fresh one.", self.filename)
+            return {}
+
+    def load(self):
+        logger.debug("load: %s", self.filename)
+        try:
+            self.data = self._load()
+        except Exception as ex:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught
+            # If we still get exception after retry, ignore all types of exceptions and use a new cache.
+            # - EOFError is caused by empty cache file created by other az instance, but hasn't been filled yet.
+            # - KeyError is caused by reading cache generated by different MSAL versions.
+            logger.debug("Failed to load cache: %s. Using a fresh one.", ex)
+            self.data = {}  # Ignore a non-existing or corrupted http_cache
+
+    @retry()
+    def _save(self):
+        with open(self.filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            # At this point, an empty cache file will be created. Loading this cache file will
+            # raise EOFError. This can be simulated by adding time.sleep(30) here.
+            # So during loading, EOFError is ignored.
+            json.dump(self.data, f, cls=NormalizedResponseJsonEncoder)
+
+    def save(self):
+        logger.debug("save: %s", self.filename)
+        # If 2 processes write at the same time, the cache will be corrupted,
+        # but that is fine. Subsequent runs would reach eventual consistency.
+        try:
+            self._save()
+        except TypeError as e:
+            # If serialization fails, skip saving to avoid corrupting the cache file
+            logger.debug("Failed to save cache due to TypeError: %s", e)
+
+    def get(self, key, default=None):
+        return self.data.get(key, default)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        return self.data[key]
+
+    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        self.data[key] = value
+        self.save()
+
+    def __delitem__(self, key):
+        del self.data[key]
+        self.save()
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self.data)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.data)