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Microsoft plans to make its Azure Data Lake store, analytics service and new query language -- all derivatives of its internal 'Cosmos' technologies -- available in public preview before year-end.

Base storage for a vCore Cosmos DB system is 128GB, which should be suitable for many common workloads. You can choose to start with two vCPUs and 8GB of RAM and scale up to 32 with 128GB of RAM.

Cosmos DB's entry level pricing has come way down, opening up the service to a much broader audience. And Azure Machine Learning gets new versatility, including usability from virtually all Python ...