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Introducing Azure Cosmos DB

Leentje Chavatte

Leentje Chavatte

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Azure Cosmos DB was built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core. It offers turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and replicating your data wherever your users are. Elastically scale throughput and storage worldwide, and only pay for what you need.

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