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Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings, operational records, images, and field documentation—yet many workflows remain fragmented, manual, and slow. In this month’s edition of our Scalable The post Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Tredence Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

We’re excited to announce the Cursor plugin for Azure Cosmos DB bringing AI-powered database expertise, best practices guidance, and live database connectivity directly into your coding workflow. Whether you’re designing a new data model, optimizing queries, or building a RAG application with vector search, the Cursor plugin gives your AI assistant deep knowledge of Azure The post Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Plugin for Cursor appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was an incredible gathering of developers, open-source contributors, startups, and technology enthusiasts from across the region. This year, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB were present at the summit with both technical sessions and a dedicated booth, giving us a great opportunity to connect with the community and talk about building The post Azure Cosmos DB at FOSSASIA Summit 2026: Sessions, Conversations, and Community appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of private network support for Azure Cosmos DB mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, enabling customers to replicate operational data into Fabric from Azure Cosmos DB accounts secured with private endpoints or virtual networks while continuing to operate within their existing network security models. As more organizations connect operational data The post Now Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Networks appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

Join us for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026, a free global, virtual developer event focused on building modern applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Date: April 28, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM–2:00 PM PT Where: Streaming live on the Microsoft Developer YouTube channel, with additional sessions available on demand. Free Registration: aka.ms/cosmosconfreg Full details: aka.ms/azurecosmosdbconf Chat with The post A Look Ahead at Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026: From AI Agents to Global Scale appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

Running MongoDB at scale eventually forces a trade-off: invest heavily in managing your own infrastructure or move to a managed service and risk losing the compatibility and portability your team depends on.  Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed, MongoDB-compatible database on Azure, built on an MIT-licensed open-source engine that runs consistently across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Developers keep the skills and The post Azure DocumentDB: A Fully Managed MongoDB-Compatible Database appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

In the first post of this series, we introduced how Azure Advisor helps Azure Cosmos DB users uncover opportunities to optimize efficiency and make smarter decisions. This follow-up dives deeper into one of the most important categories of guidance: performance. If you’ve ever dealt with skewed workloads, unexpected RU consumption, or queries that don’t scale The post Maximize Azure Cosmos DB Performance with Azure Advisor Recommendations appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

The Vercel AI SDK is an open-source TypeScript toolkit that provides the core building blocks for integrating AI into any JavaScript application. It works with 20+ AI providers out of the box—including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and more—so you can write your code once and switch providers by changing a single import. At The post Building AI-Powered Apps with Azure Cosmos DB and the Vercel AI SDK appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

Strengthen Identity Security and Eliminate Account Keys Identity is becoming the new security perimeter. As organizations modernize their cloud applications, long‑lived secrets and shared keys introduce unnecessary risk. Azure Cosmos DB now fully supports Microsoft Entra ID for both control plane and data plane access, giving customers a secure, passwordless, least‑privilege alternative to legacy key‑based The post How to Enable Microsoft Entra ID for Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL) appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.

Series: Building Serverless Applications with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB In the first post of this series, we focused on establishing the fundamentals of serverless architecture by building and deploying a simple HTTP API using Azure Functions and FastAPI. The post centred on serverless compute, showing how Azure Functions handles execution, scaling, and infrastructure The post Part 2: Building a Python CRUD API with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.