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Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

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With these elastic database pools, customers pay for the aggregate of all the databases instead of for each one separately.

The new service will let you split workloads across Oracle and Azure while essentially operating as if it's on one cloud.

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