Provisioning a Cosmos DB database

As we did in Chapter 4, Provisioning and Implementing an Azure SQL Database, to create a database, we will go through the process of creating a Cosmos DB database step by step. Different settings are described in different sub-sections, but all steps should be followed (although you could create a database with default settings after entering the settings on the first page with basic settings only).

Let's get started:

1. Start a browser and open the Azure portal (portal.azure.com).
2. Open the portal menu (click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper-left corner of the portal home page).
3. Click in the menu on the Create a resource button.
4. Type Azure Cosmos DB in the textbox at the top of the page to search the marketplace.
5. Click on the tile for Azure Cosmos DB.
6. Click on the Create button.

You now get to a page with multiple tiles where you need to choose the type of API you want to use. Cosmos DB...