Missing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB option in API selection when creating Cosmos DB resource.

Hi Lukáš Műller,

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When creating a new Cosmos DB account in the Azure portal, you may not see a separate option called “Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.” Instead, the correct option is:

“Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)”

This is the Cosmos DB API for MongoDB. Microsoft has updated the portal naming, but the functionality is unchanged. Selecting this option provisions a Cosmos DB account that exposes a MongoDB connection string (mongodb://...) and works with MongoDB drivers, Compass, and other MongoDB tools.

Reference: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/category/mongodb-api/

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Thanks!

Kalyani

Hello Kalyani,

from what I found on the internet, I should have an option to choose Azure CosmosDB for MongoDB vCore. Which is something Im looking for. Base on your answer, I would like to kindly ask you whether it means that the vCore option is no longer available and theres only Azure DocumentDB?

Thanks!

Lukáš