In today's digital landscape, cross-region replication has become a foundational feature for any managed database service aiming to provide high availability, disaster recovery, and global scalability. Ensuring data continuity and availability even during regional outages or unexpected events is essential, and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) no...

We’re thrilled to announce the preview of new storage sizes for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, designed to provide more capacity and enhanced performance for your MongoDB workloads. Whether you’re managing large, complex datasets or high-throughput applications, these new storage tiers—8 TiB, 16 TiB, and 32 TiB per physical shard—offer th...

We’re excited to introduce significant enhancements to vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB with the release of multishard clusters preview, designed to take scalability and performance to the next level. This update brings several new capabilities that address the needs of demanding database workloads, making it easier than ever to manage large...

A modern managed database service such as Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB has a growing list of requirements in today’s world. Prompt recovery of the database availability when its region becomes unavailable is one of such critical functions. When a region is experiencing outage, there’re two primary methods for restoring access to data of a man...

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...

Big news from the Postgres and Citus team here at Microsoft! Just 1 week after PostgreSQL 15 was released, PostgreSQL 15 GA is generally available in the portal for the Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL managed service—in all Azure regions. Whether you need to provision new clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres—or upgrade your existing database clu...