AzureFunBytes Presents: Migrating Your Data - Create Your Cosmos DB
Jun 10, 2021Jay Gordon

Summary
This post details how to create an Azure Cosmos DB deployment for MongoDB API using an ARM template. It explains the benefits of Cosmos DB, including its multi-API support, low latency, global availability, auto-scaling, and integration with other Azure services. The post provides a snippet of an ARM template for creating MongoDB collections with shard keys and indexes, and guides users on how to deploy the template using the 'Deploy to Azure' button in the Azure quickstart repository. It also explains the concept of a 'collection' in Cosmos DB and lists the required parameters for deployment.