Exercise 1 – creating an Azure Cosmos DB account using the Azure portal

Azure Cosmos DB is a distributed database engine with a core set of features no matter how you use your database. These features include the ability to elastically distribute databases, the ability to scale both storage and throughput bi-directionally, low latency with financially backed SLAs, various consistency options, and enterprise-class security features.

Azure Cosmos DB is designed for high responsiveness and always-on availability for most modern applications in the cloud. Cosmos DB is considered a NoSQL database and works primarily with four data models (key-value, documents, column-family or table-style, and graph).

Azure Cosmos DB includes documents stored where data is schemeless and most likely stored as JSON documents. Many document databases use JSON to represent the document structure, graph-oriented models where data is represented as diagrammatic structures such as nodes and edges...