| Feature | Manual (Fixed) | Autoscale | | --- | --- | --- | | | Always max | Scales from 10% to 100% of max | | Cost during low traffic | Full price | As low as 10% of full price | | Cost during spikes | Full price | Full price (but you don’t throttle) | | Best use case | 24/7 production | Variable workloads, bursty apps |
If you’ve been in the cloud database space for a while, you remember DocumentDB —Microsoft’s original NoSQL database service. Today, DocumentDB is the core of Azure Cosmos DB , a globally distributed, multi-model database service. But one thing hasn’t changed: pricing can be confusing. documentdb pricing
| Feature | Manual (Fixed) | Autoscale | | --- | --- | --- | | | Always max | Scales from 10% to 100% of max | | Cost during low traffic | Full price | As low as 10% of full price | | Cost during spikes | Full price | Full price (but you don’t throttle) | | Best use case | 24/7 production | Variable workloads, bursty apps |
If you’ve been in the cloud database space for a while, you remember DocumentDB —Microsoft’s original NoSQL database service. Today, DocumentDB is the core of Azure Cosmos DB , a globally distributed, multi-model database service. But one thing hasn’t changed: pricing can be confusing.