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We covered the roles your Azure Cosmos DB app needs in our previous post. Now let’s look at what happens after you’ve assigned those roles, switched identities, disabled keys and suddenly staring at a . As we continue this security series, we’ll walk through the most common causes, how to diagnose them, and how to get back to green quickly. The si...

In the previous post in the series, we covered the security decisions you make on day one. In this part, we will talk about how to give your app access to Cosmos DB data, using roles and a managed identity instead of keys. The situation You’ve built your app. It works locally. Now you’re ready to connect it to Azure Cosmos DB, and you hit the que...

Introduction Managing access to Azure resources often means dealing with two separate permission models: one for management operations and another for data access. For Azure Cosmos DB customers, this split can increase complexity, slow down onboarding, and create confusion around governance and security boundaries. Today, we’re excited to annou...

Editor's note (November 2025): Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) has been renamed to Azure DocumentDB. This article was originally published before the rename, so it uses the product name that was current at the time. While the product name has changed, the technical concepts discussed in this article remain applicable unless otherwise noted. For...

Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer is a web-based tool that allows you to interact with your data, run queries, and visualize results in Azure Cosmos DB. It is available in the Azure Portal and as a standalone web app. RBAC allows you to use Microsoft Entra ID identities to control data access in Data Explorer, instead of using account keys. This way...