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Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now in preview

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20
Luis Bosquez
We are happy to announce the preview release for native Mongo shell v3.6.8 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB! This will provide you with the native Mongo shell capabilities for database management and CRUD operations. This is available in your Data Explorer either in the Azure Portal or in its stand-alone version...

Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available

March 14, 2020 Mar 14, 2020 03/14/20
Thomas Weiss
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB, making Azure Cosmos DB the next Azure service compatible with Azure Private Link. What is Azure Private Link Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) services. It simplifies the ...

Build apps for free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier

March 6, 2020 Mar 6, 2020 03/6/20
Deborah Chen
With the new Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier, you’ll get the first 400 RU/s throughput and 5 GB storage in your account for free each month, for the lifetime of the account. That means that you can start small and grow with confidence, knowing your app will be running on a high-performance database service.

Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB now supports server version 3.6

November 6, 2019 Nov 6, 2019 11/6/19
Sri Chintala
What is Azure Cosmos DB? Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that enables you to read and write data from any Azure region. It offers turnkey global distribution,guarantees single-digit millisecond latency at the 99th percentile, 99.999 percent high availability, with elastic scaling of throughput and ...

What’s new in Azure Cosmos DB: November 2019

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19
Deborah Chen
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service. It offers turn-key global distribution, guarantees single-digit millisecond latency at the 99th percentile, 99.999 percent high availability, and elastic scaling of throughput and storage. For Ignite 2019, we’re excited to announce tons of new ...

Welcome to the Azure Cosmos DB Blog!

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Mark Brown
Welcome to the new Azure Cosmos DB Team blog. In this blog our team will work hard to provide you with lots of news and information for Azure Cosmos DB. You can come here to get the last news and updates directly from the product team as it happens and also through monthly updates. We will also provide deep technical insights that come ...