Azure Cosmos DB

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Turn your Azure Cosmos DB data into REST and GraphQL APIs with Azure Data API Builder. This guide walks through the setup using the CLI so you can move from data model to API fast.

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Hybrid search in Azure DocumentDB combines vector search and full-text scoring into a unified ranking model using Reciprocal Rank Fusion.

Build search experiences that support semantic and keyword queries together.

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Part 1: Building Your First Serverless HTTP API on Azure with Azure Functions & FastAPI - Azure Cosmos DB Blog Explore Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions for serverless development with automatic scaling and cost efficiency.

Part one of a new series shows how to build a serverless HTTP API with Azure Functions and FastAPI connected to Azure Cosmos DB. Follow the guide to get started:

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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is your place for all info about the free virtual event on April 28, 2026. Learn from engineers who build with Azure Cosmos DB and discover practical demos and guidance.

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Maximize Azure Cosmos DB Performance with Azure Advisor Recommendations Azure Advisor is a built-in optimization service that helps you get the most out of your Azure resources—with minimal effort. In this video, we focus on performance recommendations and show how Azure Advisor continuously analyzes your workloads, configuration settings, and operational telemetry to deliver personalized insights. You’ll see how Azure Advisor surfaces actionable recommendations for Azure Cosmos DB, including indexing insights that help your applications run faster and more efficiently. Because Azure Advisor continuously monitors your Azure Cosmos DB workloads, you always get fresh, up-to-date recommendations as your traffic and data grow. By applying a few targeted updates based on these insights, you can significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and scalability of your Cosmos DB applications—without guesswork. Topics covered: - What Azure Advisor is and how it works - Performance recommendations in the Azure portal - Azure Cosmos DB indexing insights - Maintaining peak performance as workloads scale Full Blog Post: https://msft.it/63325QpW2H #Azure #AzureAdvisor #AzureCosmosDB

Azure Advisor provides personalized performance recommendations for Azure Cosmos DB, including partition key guidance, indexing optimization, query insights, and throughput monitoring to support scalable, efficient workloads.

Watch the demo:
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Explore vector search in TypeScript with Azure DocumentDB. This hands-on sample shows how to store embeddings, configure vector indexes, and run similarity queries in a Node.js app.

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Save the date, Azure Cosmos DB Conf returns on April 28th, 2026

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Save the date 📅 Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is coming on April 28, 2026 from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM PT.

Mark your calendar, start shaping your ideas, and visit the site for the latest news and upcoming Call for Proposals. #AzuireCosmosDBConf 🔗 msft.it/63328t2gRG

Save the date 📅 Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is happening on April 28, 2026 from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM PT.

Mark your calendar and visit the website for the latest news, updates, and details on the upcoming Call for Proposals. #AzureCosmosDBConf
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Mark your calendars 📅 Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is happening April 28, 2026 from 9 AM–12 PM PT. Start thinking about your ideas, get those proposals ready, and be part of Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026. Visit the site for news and updates — CFP coming soon 👀
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From Real-Time Analytics to AI: Your Azure Cosmos DB & DocumentDB Agenda for Microsoft Ignite 2025 - Azure Cosmos DB Blog Plan your Azure Cosmos DB & DocumentDB sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2025. Learn real-time analytics, AI, and meet experts.

Big things are coming at #MicrosoftIgnite!
Learn, connect, and innovate with Azure Cosmos DB & DocumentDB.
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Run Cross-Database Queries with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric Discover how to run cross-database queries with Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. This tutorial shows you how to connect and query NoSQL data alongside SQL data using the SQL Analytics Endpoint. Learn how to unify multiple data sources, simplify analytics, and unlock insights by combining Cosmos DB in Fabric with SQL in Fabric—all within one powerful platform. Perfect for developers, data engineers, and analysts working with cloud databases, real-time analytics, and scalable applications. #AzureCosmosDB #MicrosoftFabric #NoSQL #SQL #DataIntegration #CloudComputing #Analytics

Cross-database magic in Microsoft Fabric ✨ Query Azure Cosmos DB + SQL together with the SQL Analytics Endpoint. Watch the walkthrough: msft.it/63326tHM0K
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Boost Your Azure Cosmos DB Efficiency with Azure Advisor Insights Azure Advisor offers personalized guidance to help you fine-tune your Azure Cosmos DB setup. This video highlights key recommendations—like SDK upgrades, saving more with reserved capacity, upgrading to TLS 1.2 or higher, and indexing recommendations—that can drive better performance and cost savings. Perfect for developers, architects, and cloud engineers. (Docs) Automated recommendations for Azure Cosmos DB - https://msft.it/63328s7TIa

Azure Advisor highlights practical tweaks for Azure Cosmos DB—SDK upgrades, reserved capacity, TLS 1.2+, indexing. Quick explainer here: msft.it/63321s7TIL

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Bringing Context to Copilot: Azure Cosmos DB Best Practices, Right in Your VS Code Workspace - Azure Cosmos DB Blog 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 […]

🚀 Boost your productivity with Copilot in VS Code!
Discover how Azure Cosmos DB brings best practices right into your workspace, making development smarter and faster.

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Build a RAG application with LangChain and Local LLMs powered by Ollama - Azure Cosmos DB Blog Local large language models (LLMs) provide significant advantages for developers and organizations. Key benefits include enhanced data privacy, as sensitive information remains entirely within your own infrastructure, and offline functionality, enabling uninterrupted work even without internet access. While cloud-based LLM services are convenient, running models locally gives you full control over model behavior, performance tuning, […]

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Quickstart - Create an Azure Cosmos DB database and container using Terraform Quickstart showing how to an Azure Cosmos DB database and a container using Terraform

Terraform + Azure Cosmos DB = infrastructure as code made easy. Use the quickstart to deploy a NoSQL Cosmos DB account + containers via Terraform and Azure CLI.
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PyBay 2025 - Save the date - Saturday, October 18, 2025

📢 PyBay 2025 (SF, Oct 18) → 2 FREE Microsoft workshops (first-come basis):

🧩 Agentic AI w/ Semantic Kernel + Graph RAG on Postgres (10:30 AM)
🚀 Full-Stack FastAPI w/ Azure Cosmos DB via Docker (1:30 PM)

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How to Store Agent Threads with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure AI Agent Service | Microsoft Build 2025 At Microsoft Build 2025, James Codella, Ph.D. demonstrates how to easily bring your own thread storage for AI agents using Azure Cosmos DB and the Azure AI Agent Service. In this session, you'll learn how to use Bicep templates from the Azure AI Foundry samples library to set up your environment, connect your agent instances to Azure Cosmos DB, and persist agent thread and session data—including inputs, outputs, tool usage, and more. 🔍 Key highlights: * Seamless setup of thread storage with Azure Cosmos DB * Persist chat histories and agent metadata * Use thread data for context retention and downstream analysis * Full visibility and control over agent interactions * Supports GPT-4.0 Mini and the Agent Playground in AI Foundry Whether you’re building agentic applications or need persistent conversational context at scale, Azure Cosmos DB makes it easy and cost-effective to manage AI threads with speed, security, and flexibility. 🔗 Try it out: https://msft.it/63321sxPa5 #AzureCosmosDB #MicrosoftBuild #AgenticAI #AIApplications #AzureAI #ThreadStorage

Need persistent context for AI agents?
At #MSBuild, James Codella showed how to use Azure Cosmos DB + Azure AI Agent Service to store threads, chat history & tool usage at scale.

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Azure Cosmos DB Shorts: What are embeddings? In this quick and informative video, Mark Brown, Microsoft Principal PM Manager for Azure Cosmos DB, explains embeddings—the mathematical representations that capture the meaning of words, images, and documents as vectors in multi-dimensional space. You'll learn: • How embeddings work and why they are essential for applications like ChatGPT, recommendation engines, and image search • How objects with similar characteristics are placed close to each other in vector space • The role of embeddings in vector search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications Want to dive deeper? Check out our samples gallery for documentation, videos, and examples on GitHub. #AzureCosmosDB #AI #VectorSearch Useful links: • Azure Cosmos DB Samples Gallery - https://msft.it/63328sxPSa • Try Azure Cosmos DB for free - https://msft.it/63320sxPSI • Azure Cosmos DB TV - https://msft.it/63323sxPSF • Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube - https://msft.it/63326sxPS4 • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X - https://msft.it/63329sxPS7 • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn - https://msft.it/63323sxPsB

🔍 Understanding Embeddings with Mark Brown (Azure Cosmos DB)
Watch how words/images/docs are mapped to vector space, enabling similarity, search, and RAG workflows.
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Customer Story: Scaling Anti-Money Laundering Compliance with Azure Cosmos DB Mike Calvin, CTO of Kinectify, shares how his team uses Azure Cosmos DB as the operational data store powering their anti-money laundering compliance platform for the gaming industry. Ingesting millions of transactions per day from leading casinos and gaming organizations, Kinectify analyzes activity for potential risk and supports clients in preparing regulatory filings. Mike explains how Cosmos DB provides the scalability and performance needed to handle large-scale data ingestion with ultra-low latency. Its flexibility has enabled their team to scale from gigabytes to terabytes in just over a year while accelerating development and simplifying deployment—eliminating the overhead of schema changes and relational constraints. --- Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. This is our fifth Azure Cosmos DB Conf. Sessions are a combination of Microsoft and community delivered. Come and learn more about Azure Cosmos DB. See what others in the community are building. April 15, 2025 9AM – 12PM PT To explore all sessions, visit: https://msft.it/63321sxPl3 🔗 Useful Links • Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Website – https://msft.it/63324sxPlu • Evaluate Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Sessions - https://msft.it/63327sxPlT • Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube – https://msft.it/63320sxPln • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X – https://msft.it/63323sxPlZ • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn – https://msft.it/63325sxPlb #AzureCosmosDBConf #AzureCosmosDB

🎲 Kinectify uses Azure Cosmos DB to power anti-money laundering compliance in gaming. Millions of casino transactions ingested daily, analyzed in real-time for potential risk.

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Configure continuous integration and continuous deployment for Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric (preview)

Boost your Cosmos DB workflow in Fabric: integrate with Git, create deployment pipelines, and automate deployments of your database artifacts.
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GitHub - AzureCosmosDB/cosmos-embeddings-generator: This sample shows how to use a Cosmos DB Trigger in Azure Functions Triggers (C# or Python) to automatically generate embeddings on data on new or updated data. This sample shows how to use a Cosmos DB Trigger in Azure Functions Triggers (C# or Python) to automatically generate embeddings on data on new or updated data. - AzureCosmosDB/cosmos-embeddings-ge...

🧠The Azure Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator shows how to auto-generate embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Functions.
Includes hashing to prevent loops, works with OpenAI models, supports RBAC & managed identity.
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Chat-Prompt UI Style — mock-up of a chat box with a user typing “Show my Cosmos DB databases” and a clean result panel.

🧰 New: #AzureCosmosDB tools for the #Azure MCP Server
Use natural language to list accounts, browse containers, and query items directly.
Simple. Intuitive. Agent-ready.
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GitHub - AzureCosmosDB/azure-cosmos-mcp-server-samples: This repository contains a collection of sample implementations of the MCP across multiple programming languages, all backed by Azure Cosmos DB. These examples demonstrate how to create, query, update, and delete documents using the Azure Cosmos DB SDKs This repository contains a collection of sample implementations of the MCP across multiple programming languages, all backed by Azure Cosmos DB. These examples demonstrate how to create, query, up...

Explore Azure Cosmos DB MCP Server Samples repo: live use cases of managing DB resources via natural language — list accounts, query containers, fetch items.
Ideal for devs exploring MCP tools or building AI integrations.
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“Vector” + “Full-Text” → “Hybrid Results

Hybrid Search in #AzureCosmosDB 🔎
Now you can combine vector + keyword search (BM25) with rank fusion (RRF) to get better relevance.
A big win for RAG, search, and QA apps.
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Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search - Azure Cosmos DB Blog by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (https://msft.it/63320sWM0k) 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 […]

🎧 Record Scanner, the vinyl collectors’ app, cut costs nearly 20× and boosted performance by switching to Azure Cosmos DB vector search.
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👩‍💻 New: Azure Cosmos DB Extension for VS Code

👩‍💻 The new Azure Cosmos DB Extension for VS Code is here
Work with your NoSQL data directly in your editor: connect, query, explore, edit.
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Secure Your Connections with Entra ID Support in the DocumentDB VS Code Extension

🔐 DocumentDB VS Code extension now supports Entra ID for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore). Passwordless & secure.
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Now GA: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) supports encryption with customer-managed keys

🔐 Now GA: #AzureCosmosDB for #MongoDB (vCore) supports encryption with customer-managed keys.
Bring your own key for complete control over data at rest.
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Quickstart - Azure SDK for Node.js - Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Deploy a Node.js Express web application that uses the Azure SDK for Node.js to interact with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL data in this quickstart.

Get started with Azure Cosmos DB + TypeScript in minutes. This quick tutorial walks you through deploying a NoSQL account, building a sample Node.js app, and doing CRUD + queries with the Azure SDK.
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Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Account Overview Hub One Hub, Total Control - Azure Cosmos DB

Easier navigation for #AzureCosmosDB.
The new Account Overview Hub helps you set up, monitor, and optimize your DB from a single view in the Azure Portal.
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