Azure – Explore & Build Cosmos DB

  1. Login to Azure portal https://portal.azure.com 

  

  1. Start free trial by clicking on ‘Start’ button under ‘Start with an Azure free trial’ section on home page. 

 


  1. On home page click on breadcrumb icon on left top menu & click on ‘Azure Cosmos DB’. One can also find icon for ‘Azure Cosmos DB’ on home page. 

 

 

 

  1. Click on ‘Create’ button or ‘Create Azure Cosmos DB Account’ to get started. 

  1. Select API Option – for self-learning start with ‘Core (SQL) – Recommended’. Click on Create button to move to next stage. 

  1. On next page do following: 

  1. Subscription – Free Trial 

  1.  Resource Group – Click on Create New and provide name – ‘AZ_COSMOS_RG’. Click OK button. 

  1. Account Name - Give name of your choice or you can keep it ‘azlearn (should be all in small case). 

  1. Location – Keep it default or select ‘(Asia Pacific) Central India’. 

  1. Capacity mode – Provisioned throughput 

  1. Apply Free Tier Discount – Apply 

  1. Limit total account throughput – select the checkbox 

  1. Click on ‘Next: Global Distribution’ button 

  1. Keep all default options 

  1. Click on ‘Next: Networking’ button 

  1. Connectivity method – All networks 

  1. Click on ‘Next: Backup Policy’ button 

  1. Keep all default options 

  1. Click on ‘Next: Encryption’ button 

  1. Data Encryption – Service-managed key  

  1. Click on ‘Next :Tags’ 

  1. Give some tagging name under Key and Value (Optional) 

  1. Click on ‘Next: Review + Create’ button 

  1. Review and click on ‘Create’ button 

  1. Wait for deployment to finish. This will take couple of minutes time to complete 

  1. Post completion, following status will be visible. Click on ‘Go to resource’ to continue. 

 

  1. On next screen, you will land up on page showing Azure Cosmos DB created in previous steps. Click on ‘Overview’ on left side menu to view details of DB. 

 

 

  1. On left side menu, click on ‘Data Explorer’ and then click on ‘Start with Sample’. 

 

 

  1. This will take few seconds and you will receive pop-up confirming sample DB creation completion status. 

 

  1. Review Sample DB created under ‘Data’ and run sample query to get sample data. 

 

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