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In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud services, Azure Cosmos DB made a notable advancement a few years ago by introducing a dedicated free tier. Today, we're thrilled to extend this remarkable feature to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, empowering our users to unlock the full potential of this platform without any financial commitments. So, ...

We're thrilled to announce that following a successful public preview, Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore has officially launched and is now available for all users! This marks a significant achievement in our quest to provide our users with a robust, seamlessly integrated, and fully-managed database solution tailored for their MongoDB workloads.   ...

We are thrilled to announce Microsoft Copilot for Azure in Azure Cosmos DB is now in public preview! Microsoft Copilot for Azure is an AI companion that simplifies how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot from cloud to edge. Copilot’s integration into Azure Cosmos DB is an amazing AI-powered capability that can create Azure Cosmos DB NoS...

In April 2023, we announced the public preview for end-to-end assessment in Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio. We have recently added the offline migration capability of MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB vCore to the same extension. With this additional capability, you can run an end-to-end assessment followed by...

Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL databases. Ot...

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is a cloud-native hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capability that enables near real-time analytics over operational data in Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Synapse Link creates a tight seamless integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics. We are excited to announce the new A...

Everyone is talking about AI and how it transforms the way we live and work. If you want to keep up with the latest trends, breakthroughs, and solutions in AI, then Microsoft Ignite 2023 is where you need to be! Taking place in Seattle from November 14-17, 2023, and accessible online from November 15-16, this premier tech event will cover the lates...

The Apache Cassandra Project Team recently announced that, after more than half a decade, versions 3.0.x and 3.11.x will reach End of Life at the end of 2023. To echo the project team announcement, we want to highlight the significant advantages of upgrading to Cassandra 4.0 or 4.1, and encourage users to make the transition. However, if you ...

We are very happy to announce the general availability for Azure Cosmos DB custom routing endpoints for Azure IoT Hub. Many IoT solutions require extensive downstream data analysis. You have to seamlessly push the data into hyperscale databases quickly. For example, intelligent transport systems have a constant inflow of a continuous stream of d...

Big news in the Postgres world: PostgreSQL 16 was released just over 2 weeks ago. And today we're announcing that Postgres 16 is generally available for production workloads on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. That’s right, in production: this announcement is not just a preview of Postgres 16 support.  Whether you need to provision a new distribu...