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Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), something no other database service can offer.

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Getting Started

Getting Started

Technical overview and unique features of Azure Cosmos DB

2/20/2020, Video, 0:16:11

In this video, discover the unique capabilities and features of Azure Cosmos DB, a fully managed #NoSQL database system for scalable and real-time applications. Product...
A developer's guide to Azure Cosmos DB, from onboarding to going live in production

11/5/2019, Video, 0:45:00

It's never been a better time to be a developer on Azure Cosmos DB. In this practical, demo-heavy session, we go through the developer journey end to end, all the way from...
Learning Azure Cosmos DB

1/9/2020, Trainings

Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB is becoming an essential tool for creating powerful global web and mobile applications. This course will teach you how to design databases and...
Building event driven apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions

11/5/2019, Video, 0:45:00

Users expect modern apps to offer event-driven, real-time experiences. In this demo-packed session, learn how to build event-driven apps using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure...
Data modelling and partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB: What every relational database user needs to know

11/5/2019, Video, 0:45:00

For many newcomers to Azure Cosmos DB, the learning process starts with data modeling and partitioning. How should I structure my data? When should I co-locate data in a...
Options for data in the cloud

11/5/2019, Video, 0:45:00

Tailwind Traders is a large retail corporation with a dangerous single point of failure: sales, fulfillment, monitoring, and telemetry data is centralized across its online...
Options for data in the cloud | APPS20

1/16/2020, Video, 0:37:58

Tailwind Traders is a large retail corporation with a dangerous single point of failure: sales, fulfillment, monitoring, and telemetry data is centralized across its online...
Data on Azure: The big picture

9/28/2017, Video, 1:12:13

Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session,...

Videos

Using Entity Framework Core with Azure SQL DB and Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday

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10/23/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Azure

Using Entity Framework Core with Azure SQL DB and Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday

Entity Framework Community Standup - Oct 14th 2020 - Cosmos DB: Repository Pattern .NET Wrapper SDK

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10/13/2020, dotNET

Entity Framework Community Standup - Oct 14th 2020 - Cosmos DB: Repository...

Entity Framework Community Standup - Oct 14th 2020 - Cosmos DB: Repository Pattern .NET Wrapper SDK

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10/7/2020, .NET Foundation

Entity Framework Community Standup - Oct 14th 2020 - Cosmos DB: Repository...

Real-time analytics and BI using Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB | OD217

0:33:43

10/1/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite

Real-time analytics and BI using Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB | OD217

Best Practices of Running Cloud Native Applications on Azure | OD202

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10/1/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite

Best Practices of Running Cloud Native Applications on Azure | OD202

Building modern apps with Azure Cosmos DB serverless and Azure Cache for Redis | OD205

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10/1/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Ignite

Building modern apps with Azure Cosmos DB serverless and Azure Cache for...

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Learning

Learning Paths

Migrating Cassandra and MongoDB workloads to Cosmos DB

Published: 8/2/2020, Length: 1:13:00

The focus of this learning path is to migrate MongoDB and Cassandra databases to Azure Cosmos DB.

Create serverless applications

Published: 9/24/2018, Length: 8:11:00

In this learning path, discover Azure Functions that create event-driven, compute-on-demand systems using server-side logic to build serverless architectures.

Securely connect IoT devices to the cloud

Published: 4/10/2020, Length: 5:29:00

Follow this learning path to learn how to securely connect IoT devices with Azure IoT.

Learning Modules

Optimize the performance of Azure Cosmos DB by using partitioning and...

Published: 2/28/2019, Length: 1:16:00

Run Docker containers with Azure Container Instances

Published: 8/20/2019, Length: 0:48:00

Store and access graph data in Azure Cosmos DB with the Graph API

Published: 5/3/2019, Length: 0:42:00

Migrate on-premises MongoDB databases to Cosmos DB

Published: 8/1/2020, Length: 0:19:00

Store and Access NoSQL Data with Azure Cosmos DB and the Table API

Published: 4/30/2019, Length: 0:29:00

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Azure Cosmos DB News

10/20/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure CLI Oct 2020 release

Hi there, welcome to another feature release blog of the Azure CLI. Today we will be sharing with you some of the recent Azure CLI work done related to announcements atenabled several end-to-end...

9/22/2020,

Bringing Microsoft SQL to the IoT Edge

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure SQL Edge, a small footprint database engine optimized for IoT workloads. Built on the same engine the powers...

9/11/2020, The Xamarin Podcast

Episode 77: Surface Duo, Android Startup Times, and Xamarin.Essentials

This month James and Matt talk about new Microsoft Learn modules on the Surface Duo. The continuing saga of the Xamarin.Forms Shell quick tips. Of course it's a new month and that means there's...

8/24/2020, James Serra's Blog

Cosmos DB for the SQL Professional – Referencing Tables

I had a previous blog comparing Cosmos DB to a relational database (see Understanding Cosmos DB coming from a relational world) and one topic that it did not address that I want to now is how to...

8/20/2020, Azure Podcast

Episode 343 - Virtual WAN

Reshmi Yandapalli, a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Networking group, helps us understand the Virtual WAN service. She provides an overview of Virtual WAN and gives use-cases when it...

8/19/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in preview

This blog post was co-authored by Nikisha Reyes-Grange, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. We are beyond excited to announce that Azure Cosmos DB serverless is now available in...

8/19/2020, MS Dev Blogs

HttpClientFactory in the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK

You might already be familiar (and if not, you should) with this famous post called "You're using HttpClient wrong" and how it is important to reuse connections across the lifetime of your...

7/2/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Change Feed – Unsung Hero of Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is rapidly growing in popularity, and for good reason. This globally distributed, multi-model database service has massively scalable storage and throughput, provides a sliding...

6/18/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Cost optimization strategies for cloud-native application development

Today, we’ll explore some strategies that you can leverage on Azure to optimize your cloud-native application development process using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and managed databases, such...

6/12/2020, Azure Podcast

Episode 334 - Windows Containers in AKS

Mikkel Hegnhoj, a Principal PM in the AKS team, shares the details about running Windows Containers in AKS, which is now GA. He gives us guidance on how to design an AKS cluster than run Windows...

6/11/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 – General Availability

Ever since Azure Cosmos DB first released a Java SDK, we've had many customers ask us to improve the SDK such that the customer can max out request throughput with fewer client-side CPUs....

6/3/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Build 2020 Recap: What’s new in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB?

It's that time of the year again! The entirety of Microsoft has been working hard this past semester to bring you new features and functionality, and the Azure Cosmos DB is no exception. The...

5/20/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Build apps of any size or scale with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s NoSQL cloud database, is introducing new ways to affordably scale performance, launching features that enable rapid application development across teams, and making...

5/15/2020, Azure Podcast

Episode 330 - Availability Sets and Zones

Evan and the team discuss a real-world situation with a customer using Availability Sets and limitations of such deployments in Azure. Media file:...

5/11/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Improved performance and availability

This post is part 2 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.

5/11/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Migrating the production workload

This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.

5/8/2020, The Xamarin Podcast

Episode 73: Essentials 1.6, Forms 4.6 and Contact Tracing

Hope everybody is staying healthy! We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you! Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team...

5/6/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Extending Minecraft into our real world

This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs and the difference it’s making to them.

5/6/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog

Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 2: Delivering turnkey geographic distribution

This post is part 2 of a two-part series about out how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs and the difference it’s making to them.

4/28/2020, Azure Podcast

Episode 326 - Cosmos DB Free Tier

Azure Program Manager Deborah Chen talks to the team about the new Free Tier that is available for the ever-popular Cosmos DB service which makes it easier for developers to use the...