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Imagine your application is processing customer checkouts in real-time, while a background process synchronizes data for reporting. Suddenly, the seamless user experience falters because the sync job consumes more RU/s than anticipated.  Many teams face a common challenge: multiple workloads share the same container resources, yet each has diffe...

Security is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a foundational requirement for any cloud-native architecture. As organizations adopt managed database services to support mission-critical applications, they must prioritize robust, scalable, and centralized security. Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) delivers high performance and flexibility, but it prov...

We’re excited to announce general availability of DiskANN and Filtered Vector Search on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore), starting with M30 cluster tiers and above. You can now use these features in production to store and query vector embeddings directly alongside your operational data—efficiently and in one integrated vector database.  Di...

We’re excited to announce the preview of Azure Cosmos DB fleets. Azure Cosmos DB fleets address common challenges that developers face when building and managing multi-tenant or Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Today, many SaaS providers using Azure Cosmos DB isolate each tenant in a separate database account to meet strict performa...

We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Change Streams for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore)—empowering developers to build real-time, event-driven applications with ease and scale.  With Change Streams now in GA, your applications can react instantly to data changes in the database, enabling low-latency use cases such as li...

The countdown to innovation has begun: Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2025 bought several new announcements, demos, and live coding sessions to in-person and online audiences, showcasing the potential of cloud-native and AI-driven applications. Azure Cosmos DB is at the forefront of this innovation. From powering multi-agent applications and unlocking hi...

Microsoft Build 2025 is underway in Seattle, bringing developers together to shape the future of cloud-native app development. If you build MongoDB workloads in Azure, this year’s updates give you even more tools to accelerate development. We’ve streamlined how you build and modernize MongoDB applications in the cloud with our managed service- ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we're excited to announce general availability of search capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB, including full-text and hybrid search, enabling developers to build highly performant, scalable, and intelligent applications. We're also introducing new preview enhancements such as multi-language support and fuzzy search, further en...

Building modern, scalable applications often comes with the challenge of managing and scaling your database infrastructure. That’s exactly why we built Azure Cosmos DB – to provide a fast, flexible NoSQL database service that frees you from the operational heavy lifting. With automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and consistent single-...

Global secondary indexes for Azure Cosmos DB—now in Public Preview—make it easier to query data efficiently, especially as your datasets grow.  Distributed databases like Azure Cosmos DB scale with dataset growth by partitioning data across multiple physical machines. When your queries include the partition key, the client routes them directly ...