From a cloud-based application perspective, Cosmos DB is yet another persistence store that's available that you can include in your resource group. As we discussed previously, the biggest advantages of Cosmos DB also make up the unique feature set of Cosmos DB, namely global distribution, the multi-model, and high availability.
In our example app, we will be using Cosmos DB and creating our data model around the available persistence models. Let's start by adding a Cosmos DB instance to our resource group:
In this screen, we are going to set up the resource group, the account name (which also defines the access URL), and additional parameters related to the data access model, as well as global distribution.
