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[tasubotadas]

Hello,

I am aware that one can provision per database, but as another poster mentioned, you can't change that once a database is created, and also you need to specify something that's called partition keys and that can't be done using MongoDB driver. If I recall correctly, you don't even have examples available for that in CosmosDB Python API.

I mean yeah - it's possible. But it is also a pain in the ass.

[rnehme → tasubotadas]

Hi, I am from Cosmos DB engineering team.

Yes, for shared throughput database, you will need to create a new database.

- You can create MongoDB API collections with shard keys defined. It is fully supported by MongoDB driver

- Support MongoDB collections without shard key specified is coming in May

Thank you for the feedback on the docs and the missing code samples. We will add those in the docs.

Thanks!

[tasubotadas → rnehme]

Thanks. I wasn't aware that a shard key is mapped to a partition key.