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Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/native-agent-memory-for-microsoft-agent-framework-powered-by-azure-cosmos-db/
Published: July 24, 2026 11:00
Recently we introduced the Agent Memory Toolkit and the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB. The Agent Memory Toolkit gives your agents durable, Cosmos-backed memory: it stores raw conversation turns and then distills them into higher-value…
AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/use-ai-agents-with-cosmosdb-vnext-emulator/
Published: July 20, 2026 14:05
If you use the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator, you probably know the local development loop: start the emulator, connect to it, create some resources, load test data, run queries, and inspect the results. Each step is straightforward, but together they add…
Building on Vercel’s eve + Azure Cosmos DB: An Agent That Remembers
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/cosmos-db-agent-memory/
Published: July 8, 2026 14:56
Most “AI agent” demos forget everything the moment the process exits. That’s fine for a toy project, but useless for anything real. An agent that helps you write, triage, or support needs two things a language model alone can’t give it: durable state and…
See our new Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/see-our-new-azure-cosmos-db-design-patterns/
Published: July 6, 2026 20:20
Design patterns are where good data modeling lives or dies. In a NoSQL database like Azure Cosmos DB, the difference between a schema that scales to millions of operations per second and one that fights you at every turn usually comes down to a handful of…
Need a different partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? Pick the right approach
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/need-a-different-partition-key-in-azure-cosmos-db-pick-the-right-approach/
Published: July 6, 2026 13:37
Once you create a container, its partition key is fixed at creation, and you can’t change it in place. However, if your original key starts causing problems like cross-partition queries or hot partitions, you need to consider your options for changing it.…
Spring AI 2.0 is GA: Vector Search, Memory, and Agents on Azure Cosmos DB
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/spring-ai-2-0-is-ga-vector-search-memory-and-agents-on-azure-cosmos-db/
Published: June 29, 2026 07:00
The wait is over. Spring AI 2.0 is generally available, and Azure Cosmos DB is right there with it. With this release, Spring AI graduates into a mature, production-ready framework for building AI applications in Java, and Azure Cosmos DB ships dedicated,…
Which Azure Cosmos DB Role Does My App Need?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/which-azure-cosmos-db-role-does-my-app-need/
Published: June 25, 2026 13:00
In the previous post in the series, we covered the security decisions you make on day one. In this part, we will talk about how to give your app access to Cosmos DB data, using roles and a managed identity instead of keys. The situation You’ve built your…
How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/deep-agents-to-plan-act-verify-against-operational-data/
Published: June 22, 2026 13:21
Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. The agent runs tools, looks at the results, and uses that to pick the next one, keeping a todo list as it goes. On…
Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azure-backup-for-azure-cosmos-db-public-preview-adds-immutable-backups-and-long-term-retention/
Published: June 17, 2026 13:58
Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention Picture the first few hours after a serious data incident. A production application is down. Security teams are still trying to understand what happened.…
Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-general-availability-of-the-azure-cosmos-db-built-in-connector-for-logic-apps-standard/
Published: June 16, 2026 11:33
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard. This connector gives you a native, high-performance way to integrate Azure Cosmos DB into your Standard logic app workflows,…