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November 2022

Nov 30

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security
Nov 21

Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Nov 9

General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

NOW AVAILABLE

Develop your applications with more flexibility with retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Nov 9

Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Intra-account container copy helps you create offline copies of containers within Azure Cosmos DB SQL API and Cassandra API accounts.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 26

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC

NOW AVAILABLE

Create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
Oct 26

Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API

IN PREVIEW

Unlock near real time analytics on your graph data with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
Oct 12

General availability: 16MB limit per document in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

NOW AVAILABLE

Develop your applications with more flexibility with a higher 16MB document limit in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Open Source
Oct 12

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Build distributed PostgreSQL applications that scale globally with cross-region read replicas with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Services
  • Management
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
  • Open Source

August 2022

Aug 31

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

NOW AVAILABLE

Optimize your Azure Cosmos DB workloads using the integrated cache, an in-memory cache built-in to the Azure Cosmos DB dedicated gateway.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Aug 3

Generally available: Audit log for continuous mode with Azure Cosmos DB

NOW AVAILABLE

Audit your restore actions on continuous mode in Azure Cosmos DB accounts.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 22

Public preview: Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Use the new Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB to manage all your MongoDB resources.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Jun 22

Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Azure Cosmos DB accounts can now take advantage of continuous backup with seven-day data retention and point-in-time restore capabilities.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
Jun 22

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements

IN PREVIEW

Use new Go SDK features in your Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account including authentication with Azure Active Directory, the ability to execute single partition queries, and transactional batch support.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Jun 22

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API Query Engine improvements

NOW AVAILABLE

Query your Azure Cosmos DB containers even more efficiently with new query engine optimizations.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
Jun 22

Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience

NOW AVAILABLE

Get started using Azure Cosmos DB for free.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Jun 8

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB serverless container storage limit increase to 1TB

IN PREVIEW

Store up to 1TB of data in Azure Cosmos DB serverless containers.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Jun 8

Public preview: Linux emulator with Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB 

IN PREVIEW

Develop and test locally at no cost on Linux and macOS with Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator with API for MongoDB support.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Jun 8

Public preview: 16MB limit per document in API for MongoDB 

IN PREVIEW

Develop your applications with more flexibility with a new higher 16MB document limit in the API for MongoDB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

May 2022

May 24

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB data plane RBAC

IN PREVIEW

The API for MongoDB now includes the ability to create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Public preview: Enhanced elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB help achieve the best scalability and performance, including increased serverless capacity, database traffic burst handling, partition throughput redistribution, partition merge, and hierarchical partition keys.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

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