Microsoft has warned thousands of Azure customers that a now-fixed critical vulnerability found in Cosmos DB allowed any user to remotely take over other users' databases by giving them full admin ...

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Veeam described how it rearchitected its data platform to move beyond traditional backup and recovery, using Azure Cosmos DB as the foundation for an AI-powered semantic search system. In a ...

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great ...

Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to "retire" its Azure Database for MariaDB service on Sept. 19, 2025. The announcement recommended that organizations using Azure Database for MariaDB ...

Oracle's has expanded its Database@Azure footprint to include Brazil South and Italy North regions. The solution, which sees Oracle locating its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application ...

Microsoft revealed a set of updates to its Azure platform during the Build 2025 conference aimed at improving dev access to AI-powered voice agents, document indexing and vector search integration.