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We’re excited to introduce the Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns video series—your go-to resource for learning how to design scalable, efficient, and cost-effective applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Built on real-world use cases, each episode explores a proven design pattern, walking through how it works, when to use it, and how to implement it usi...

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...

Are you passionate about Azure Cosmos DB? Do you have insights, experiences, or innovations that the developer community would love to hear? Now is your chance to shine at the Azure Cosmos DB Conference 2025 – a free, virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the vibrant Azure Cosmos DB community. Mark your calendar for April 15, 20...

Azure Cosmos DB was named by Bloomberg as the no. 1 Database of choice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Model (LLM) customization. It is used by OpenAI to scale it’s ChatGPT service, and by many thousands of customers worldwide, serving billions of end-users with globally distributed apps at planet scale. In this blog ...

Microsoft Ignite 2024 took over the Windy City this week, bringing with it new technological innovation and exciting product announcements aplenty! If you missed the first day of the show, don't worry – we’ve got you covered with all the latest and greatest Azure Cosmos DB news. This year's event saw great enthusiasm and attendance at McCorm...

We’re excited to announce several new features and advancements for search and retrieval functionalities in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL including: These features open the door to building new search and AI scenarios on Azure Cosmos DB, particularly benefiting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and multi-agent AI applications by...

Azure Cosmos DB powers some of the world’s most popular intelligent apps like ChatGPT. In a recent hackathon, Over 9,500 developers engaged with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure AI services, making it one of the most popular on Devpost, ranking in the top 0.2% of all Devpost hackathons.  Participants explored AI fundamentals and built their own AI appl...

We are excited to publish a new whitepaper titled, Microsoft DiskANN in Azure Cosmos DB, where we examine the impressive capabilities of Microsoft DiskANN, a state-of-the-art indexing system designed for accurate and cost-efficient vector search at any scale. We start off with a review of key vector search and database concepts, then follow by d...

We’re excited to announce that the DiskANN vector index is now in open public preview in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL! This means that anyone who enrolls an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL resource in the Vector Search Public Preview now automatically gets access to the most powerful and scalable vector index on the planet. What is DiskANN? ...

Vector Search with Azure Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL features advanced vector indexing and search capabilities powered by DiskANN, a suite of highly scalable, accurate, and cost-effective approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithms for low-latency vector search at any scale. Azure Cosmos DB features key capabilities important for building...