We are excited to announce the public preview of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration. This new integration improves productivity as developers can now easily create Vercel applications with an Azure Cosmos DB database already configured. With this integration, developers can transform their creative ideas into reality in real-time. 

Empowering developers to bring their ideas to life 

Azure Cosmos DB is becoming a popular choice among developers as the go-to database solution for building modern, cloud-based applications. The database offers a range of benefits that make it an attractive option for developers, including: 

Simplified app development: Azure Cosmos DB enables fast, flexible app development with free dev/test options, multiple SDKs, and support for open-source PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra.  

Performance at any scale: Azure Cosmos DB guarantees business continuity, 99.999% availability, and enterprise-level security for applications of any size and scale. You can independently and elastically scale storage and throughput across any Azure region – even during unpredictable traffic bursts – for unlimited scale worldwide.  

Elastic scalability: Azure Cosmos DB provides elastic scalability, which means that developers can easily scale their application to meet the needs of changing user demand. The service can handle millions of requests per second and can scale up or down automatically as needed. 

Low latency: Azure Cosmos DB provides SLA-backed single-digit millisecond reads and writes, which makes it an ideal choice for building real-time applications that require fast response times. 

Security and compliance: Azure Cosmos DB provides a range of security and compliance features that make it easy for developers to build applications complying with industry regulations and best practices. 

Fully managed and cost-effective: As a fully managed service, Azure Cosmos DB takes care of automatic management, updates, and patching. It also handles capacity management with cost-effective serverless and autoscale options to match capacity with demand. 

Benefits of the Vercel integration 

Vercel offers a user-friendly and robust frontend cloud platform. With Vercel, developers can take advantage of scalability, speed, security, serverless support, seamless deployment, integrations, and analytics capabilities, all of which make it an ideal choice for creating and launching web applications. 

Azure Cosmos DB – Next.js Starter Vercel Template

Vercel Templates, also known as Vercel Starter Projects, are pre-configured boilerplate projects that provide a starting point for building web applications or static websites. These templates are designed to work seamlessly with Vercel’s deployment platform, making it easier to get started with development. We have a Azure Cosmos DB Next.js template published on Vercel’s marketplace which is ready-to-use project structure and configuration, saving you time and effort in setting up the initial project setup. This allows you to dive straight into development without spending too much time on the project’s setup and configuration.

Getting started with Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB 

With Azure Cosmos DB and Vercel, developers can leverage a powerful full-stack technology suite that empowers them to quickly transform their ideas into global applications with ease. With Vercel, deploying a project and creating and connecting to an Azure Cosmos DB database can be done seamlessly, thanks to a streamlined workflow optimized for the application. This version of the integration works with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Only existing Azure Cosmos DB accounts are supported. Don’t have an account? Click here to create one in 2 minutes. To get started with Azure Cosmos DB and Vercel, follow these simple steps.

Add the Vercel integration – https://aka.ms/Vercel-Integration. 

Learn more about the integration – https://aka.ms/vercel-getting-started 

For any assistance or suggestions to improve, please don’t hesitate to reach out at cosmosdbintegrations@microsoft.com . We eagerly anticipate witnessing the creation of numerous applications utilising the integration of Cosmos DB with Vercel. Cheers!