Azure Cosmos DB - 2

2026 (10)

June (6)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: New Azure Cosmos DB cost estimator

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB cost estimator is now in public preview. It helps model throughput, storage, regions, and capacity mode before provisioning an account.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing AI Assistant in the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code now includes a public preview AI Assistant. It lets users ask questions in plain English to generate optimized Azure Cosmos DB queries and use chat participant commands.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Integrated embeddings for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now has integrated embeddings in public preview. It can automatically generate and maintain embeddings for data, removing the need for a separate embedding pipeline.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB distributed transactions

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB now has a public preview for distributed transactions. You can perform atomic operations across items and partitions, with all changes committed together or rolled back on failure.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agentic Retrieval Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB now has a public preview of the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit. It is aimed at building advanced RAG applications for GraphRAG-style and multi-hop reasoning use cases.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent Memory Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB now has a public preview of the Agent Memory Toolkit, a code-first toolkit for building agent memory systems. It is intended to support scalable, durable, and cost-efficient memory for agentic applications.

May (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: langchain-azure-cosmosdb python package for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-05-20

Microsoft announced general availability of the langchain-azure-cosmosdb Python package for Azure Cosmos DB. The package adds direct support for vector and hybrid search, semantic caching, and chat history for LangChain and LangGraph applications.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Shell—your new command line for data workflows

Azure Updates

2026-05-06

Azure Cosmos DB Shell is in public preview. It adds a command-line interface for querying, exploring, and managing Cosmos DB data, with agentic capabilities powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB spherical quantization for improved vector search

Azure Updates

2026-05-06

Azure Cosmos DB now supports spherical quantization in public preview for vector search. It is intended to improve vector indexing speed while maintaining or improving recall and accuracy at scale.

April (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Dynamic data masking with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-04-22

Azure Cosmos DB now generally supports dynamic data masking, a server-side policy feature that hides sensitive data from nonprivileged users. It is intended to help protect sensitive information from unauthorized access.