Hey, everybody, I'm Scott Hanselman, and
I'm here with Kirill Gavrylyuk,
who is gonna teach me in five minutes how to use Cosmos DB.
How is it going?
>> Good, thank you, Scott.
Yeah, I actually have some exciting news.
So we've talked about it before.
Sometimes, you want to try out technologies and you don't
necessarily have an appetite to pay money right up front.
Was that right?
We believes that short evaluation should be free.
So today, we're very excited to announce that you can go to our
Azure Cosmos DB service page.
You can click Try, it's this large green button.
Select any API.
Cosmos DB is globally distributed,
multi-model database service.
And you have four APIs to select from, let's pick one.
And you can create free Cosmos DB.
You don't even have to have other subscription.
No money required.
You're gonna get experience for 24 hours and
with ability to extend.
>> Okay, so to be clear, I am not signing up for Azure.
I'm not signing up for free Azure.
You're making me a Cosmos instance, giving me a connection
string that I can use for fun things for 24 hours.
>> Exactly, and you can extend it for
another 24 if you need it.
>> And then I can purchase and- >> And then you can purchase or
use free trial.
>> So you don't- >> Cuz I've got a lot of stuff
I'd like to try, but
I don't know if I wanna sign up for Azure.
>> Exactly, or even use your free trial dollars.
Cuz there's only so few of them, right?
>> Nice. >> So all you need to do
is to give us Microsoft Account, Live ID.
>> Sure.
>> And you can create one in 30 seconds. Then,
>> So you're using your Hotmail?
>> I’m using my Hotmail.
>> Whatever you've got, >> Yep.
>> Your Xbox.
>> Signing in.
You wanna make sure that your phone number that we will hide
in post production [LAUGH] is correct.
And in less than 15 seconds,
you're gonna get your free account.
>> Okay.
>> I did not have to give credit card,
I did not have to sign up for anything.
And I'm logged in to Azure Portal
>> How are you in
the Portal if you didn't sign up for Azure?
>> We give you access.
Remember, we have this feature called role-based access.
>> You gave me access to that one thing.
>> Exactly. >> That's so clever.
>> You have access to that and you land on a quick start.
So then, you can create your collection, or go ahead and
create your own different one.
You can easily download an app that is already connected
to this collection and start enjoying Cosmos DB, or
you can go to data explorer and start playing with queries.
>> So, I saw you just clicked Create in that Quick start.
You made an Items collection, and now,
you've already got the to do list and you're playing with it.
>> Yeah, and I can go and create a new document.
I can, kids, try out Cosmos DB queries.
All in less than 30 seconds.
>> See, everybody should do this.
>> Yes, I believe [LAUGH] so.
>> [LAUGH] >> And
it took us some time to get here.
>> Yeah. >> But
I think that is the experience that makes people
more willing to try thing >> No money, no subscriptions,
nothing, just live ID and you get customers DB for free for
24 hours with 24 hours extension.
>> Okay, and you can use what language.
>> You can use any languages.
>> You can use any of the four APIs of course that we support,
SQL, Mongo, Graph, Gramin API, or Azure Table Storage.
>> Mm-hm.
>> It's a fully featured account.
And there's no hidden fees or no hidden limitations anywhere.
>> Wow.
>> You can go replicate >> Your data globally,
we give you up to three regions for free.
>> Good. >> You can have
your collection available globally.
You can play with consistency settings,
you can increase the throughput.
This week, we're gonna give you up to.
It will change over time, we'll see what's the right point, but
would be up to 3,000 requests per second.
Which is quite cheap.
>> Plenty for 24 hours of playing.
And it's a http End point, so I can use SDKs that already exist.
If I'm using an obscure language I can still talk HTTP to Cosmos.
And you've got SDKs for Node, and Python and .net.
>> Yup, and
they're all available to you with Quick Start, so
you can even build mobile apps connecting to Quick Start.
>> It's a great opportunity for hack-a-thon people who
maybe got Zamerin or mobile application and
they want to try their backend for hack-a-thon for 24 hours.
>> Yeah. >> So where do we go?
You go look up CosmosDB, up, and then go to our service page,
or just enter trycosmosdb.azure.com.
>> Trycosmosdb.azure.com.
Fantastic.
You got us up and
running in the Try Cosmos DB in less than five minutes.
>> That was my dream all along.
>> I'm impressed.
You can do it too.
Check it out.
Try Cosmos DB at Azure.com and
keep watching us here on Azure Friday.
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