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March 2024

27 Mar

Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
13 Mar

General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
13 Mar

General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Now you can use Microsoft Entra ID authentication on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters in addition or instead of the native Postgres authentication.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
13 Mar

Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

We're excited to announce Try Azure Cosmos DB support in our Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

January 2024

31 Jan

General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Database session and object audit logging of database activities in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
31 Jan

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
17 Jan

Public preview: Partition merge now supports shared throughput databases

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

You can now merge partitions in Azure Cosmos DB on shared throughput databases. Merging partitions allows you to reduce the number of physical partitions used for your container.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

November 2023

22 Nov

General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock your potential with our free tier. Start building, testing, and growing your projects without any upfront costs. Scale up when you're ready for more.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB enables customers to prioritize critical high priority requests for execution during high traffic, while potentially throttling low priority requests.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can use offline cross-account container copy to migrate data across Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API accounts seamlessly using Azure CLI.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

25 Oct

General availability: Azure Synapse Link for existing MongoDB collections

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB enables near real time analytics, now available for existing MongoDB collections in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
25 Oct

General availability: Azure Synapse Link compatibility with Cosmos DB continuous backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now Azure Cosmos DB customers using continuous backup can enable Synapse Link in their database accounts.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
6 Oct

Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024

Target retirement date: March 30, 2024

On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Retirements

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