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Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
Target availability: Q2 2024
Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL.
March 2024
Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)
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.
General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q1 2024
Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security.
General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
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.
Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration
Target availability: Q1 2024
We're excited to announce Try Azure Cosmos DB support in our Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel.
February 2024
General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can use Azure SDKs including .NET SDK, Go SDK, Java SDK, JavaScript SDK, and Python SDK to manage the lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.
General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
You can now use Azure CLI to manage the whole lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters from provisioning to scaling to configuration changes and starting/stopping cluster compute.
January 2024
General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Database session and object audit logging of database activities in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.
Public preview: Partition merge now supports shared throughput databases
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.
November 2023
General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.
General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
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.
General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
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.
Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB
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.
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.
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