We’re excited to announce the Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent built on Azure SRE Agent; a new capability designed to simplify troubleshooting and improve reliability for your applications running on Azure Cosmos DB. Some key features of Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent are:  Benefits of using Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent Managing distributed a...

Account Key Usage Metadata is a new security and observability feature that helps Azure Cosmos DB customers avoid service disruptions during key rotations. It provides visibility when each account key was last used, allowing teams to make informed decisions before rotating or migrating to Entra ID.  This feature addresses a common challenge of r...

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service, trusted for mission-critical workloads that demand high availability, scalability, and low latency. In this post we will discover how to maximize the full potential of Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Advisor recommendations to help you build smarter, faster, and more sec...

This article follows announcement on a previous article that mentioned the end of support for Transport Security Layer (TLS) 1.0/1.1. TLS 1.3 is the latest version of the internet’s most deployed security protocol, which encrypts data to provide a secure communication channel between two endpoints. Microsoft has implemented updates to enable TLS...

Security and reliability are at the core of modern cloud applications. To strengthen data protection and align with industry best practices, we encourage all Azure Cosmos DB customers to transition to TLS 1.2. This post explains why this change is important, how to make the transition, and the benefits it brings to your applications. Why Move to T...

Security is essential for any application, and we are pleased to announce the public preview of Azure Network Security Perimeter, a feature that lets Azure Cosmos DB customers enhance their application security by creating a logical network boundary that isolates your applications network from external networks, such as the internet. Network securi...

We are excited to announce our new tool, the Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Client Configurator! We designed this tool to simplify the configuration process for hybrid clusters, enabling a smooth migration to Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. Whether you operate in a self-hosted environment or from on-premises data center...

We are excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB now has GA support for Glowroot for its Cassandra API. This allows users of Azure Cosmos DB’s Cassandra API to get all the benefits of using Glowroot. While for Glowroot users an additional benefit of having fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API.