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RSS feedNovember 2023
Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API
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.
Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
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.
Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region
Target availability: Q4 2023
Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability
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.
October 2023
General availability: Azure Synapse Link for existing MongoDB collections
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.
General availability: Azure Synapse Link compatibility with Cosmos DB continuous backup
Target availability: Q4 2023
Now Azure Cosmos DB customers using continuous backup can enable Synapse Link in their database accounts.
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.
Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
September 2023
Generally available: Custom partitioning in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.
Public Preview: Configure customer-managed keys on existing Cosmos DB accounts
Target availability: Q3 2023
Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account with Azure Key Vault.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Javascript SDK v4.0
Open-source Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript v4.0 SDK empowers developers to streamline operations with enhanced ease and efficiency.
August 2023
Public Preview: Intra-account collection copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Target availability: Q3 2023
With intra-account collection copy in the Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB you can migrate data from one collection to another in an offline manner.
July 2023
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables
Azure Data Explorer has released three new types of external tables: PostgrSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL. These new external tables allow users to query data from these sources directly within Azure Data Explorer using the Kusto Query Language (KQL).
June 2023
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link
Now generally available: managed ingestion from Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer in near real time.
Generally available: Pgvector extension on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Native vector data type enables easy storage of AI generated embeddings performing Euclidean and inner product and cosine distance searches--directly within the database.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration
Build your apps now using Vercel to easily connect an existing Azure Cosmos DB database to your Vercel projects.
May 2023
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration
Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.
Public Preview: Time-travel for Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB
Rewind to read previous transactions in Synapse Link containers to analyze previous versions of your document with time-travel for Azure Synapse Link
Generally Available: Cost-optimizations with transformations on Log Analytics for troubleshooting Cosmos DB
Optimize costs on your Log Analytics workspace by adding transformation rules to your Cosmos DB LA tables.
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