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Failures Happen in Cloud, but how Azure Cosmos DB keeps your Applications Online
The only thing that’s constant in distributed systems is failures. No cloud platform is immune to failures — from regional outages and transient network blips to human errors or hardware faults. What defines resiliency & reliability isn’t the absence of failure, but how systems anticipate, isolate, and recover from them. Here is a deep dive on how, we at Azure Cosmos DB, think about resiliency amidst the failure modes that can happen in cloud. For many internet applications and services, the database is the first layer (looking bottoms-up) that needs to be highly available, durable, whatever happens und...
From Backup to Discovery: Veeam’s Search Engine Powered by Azure Cosmos DB
This article was co-authored by Zack Rossman, Staff Software Engineer, Veeam; Ashlie Martinez, Staff Software Engineer, Veeam; and James Nguyen, Senior Principal Cloud Solution Architect, AI/ML, Microsoft. Don't miss: Hear all about about Veeam's AI-powered semantic search use case and architecture setup at Ignite! Join us for "How Veeam delivers planet-scale semantic search with Azure Cosmos DB" Thursday, Nov. 20, 1 PM PST. Most people think of data resilience as two steps: backup and recovery. Backup creates a copy. Recovery brings it back when disaster strikes. But what if you can’t find the file...
Bringing Context to Copilot: Azure Cosmos DB Best Practices, Right in Your VS Code Workspace
Developers love GitHub Copilot for its instant, intelligent code suggestions. But what if those suggestions could also reflect your specific database and workload patterns? That’s now possible with a new feature in Azure Cosmos DB for VS Code. Starting today, when you connect to your Cosmos DB account in VS Code, the extension automatically deploys an azurecosmosdb.instructions.md file to your user profile folder, ensuring it works seamlessly across all workspaces without requiring duplication in each project. This file acts as a context provider for GitHub Copilot a bridge that helps the AI understand your ...
“Cost Management” Is Now “Account Throughput” and It’s Moving
We’ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput. The “Cost Management” section has been renamed to “Account Throughput” and can now be found under the Settings section of your Azure Cosmos DB account in the Azure portal. What you can do in Account Throughput From Account Throughput you can: Where to find it In the Azure portal, open your Azure Cosmos DB account from the left navigation side bar→ Settings → Account Throughput. This update does not change how the feature works, only where you will fin...
Announcing latest Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK: Powering the Future of AI with OpenAI
We're thrilled to announce the stable release of Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK version 4.14.0! This release brings together months of innovation and collaboration, featuring ground-breaking capabilities that have been battle-tested in production environments. Many of these features were developed in close partnership with OpenAI, who rely heavily on Cosmos DB to store chat data for ChatGPT at massive scale. What Makes This Release Special After extensive beta testing, we're proud to deliver a stable release that combines performance, intelligence, and developer productivity. The features in this release have bee...
Boost your Azure Cosmos DB Efficiency with Azure Advisor Insights
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 securely. What is Azure Advisor? Azure Advisor is your cloud optimization assistant. It analyzes your Azure resources and configurations, then delivers personalized, actionable recommendations to help you: These recommendations are grou...
Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search
by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (recordscanner.com) If you’re like me, there’s at least one room in your home with an entire cabinet dedicated to your growing vinyl collection. At this point, you’ve probably heard that vinyl is making a comeback, it’s not just vintage anymore. In fact, after hitting a low during the 90s and 2000s, sales of records grew by 10 percent in 2024, largely driven by Gen Z-ers. About seven years ago, I looked at my collection and decided it was time to finally organize it. I went searching for an app to help me catalog my treasures, but the solutions I found were not eas...
🚀 Introducing the New VS Code Extension for Azure Cosmos DB
We’re excited to share that the Azure Databases extension for Visual Studio Code is now officially rebranded as the Azure Cosmos DB extension! 🎯 Why the Change? This rebranding is part of our effort to provide dedicated, streamlined tooling for each Azure database service. Similar to our extensions for MongoDB and PostgreSQL, the new Cosmos DB extension is now focused exclusively on Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, giving you a faster, simpler, and more optimized developer experience. ✨ What’s in for Azure Cosmos DB for NOSQL? 💡Good news: If you’re already using Cosmos DB NoSQL, you don’t need to do a...
Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Account Overview Hub
A Simpler Way to Navigate, Learn, and Optimize your Azure Cosmos DB Account within the Azure Portal. Whether you are just getting started with Azure Cosmos DB or managing a production workload, finding the right tools and guidance in the Azure portal should be simple. The new Cosmos DB Account Overview Hub makes that possible. It brings together setup help, data access, monitoring tools, learning resources, and recommendations, all in one central, easy-to-navigate view. Try it out by navigating to your Azure Cosmos DB account, then navigate to the left navigation pane and select Overview. What You will...