Request Units and Cosmos DB Account Modes
Explore how Cosmos DB uses request units to measure resource consumption and the impact of account modes like serverless and provisioned throughput. Understand when to choose each mode and how autoscale and manual scaling work to optimize costs and performance.
We'll cover the following...
Introduction to request units
Request units (RUs) are essential to Cosmos DB’s billing strategy because we are billed based on the RUs consumed. Each RU abstracts a resource consumption, like CPU, memory, or input/output operations per second (IOPS), and each operation consumes a specific amount of RUs, influenced by document size, query complexity, indexing policies, and more.
During this course, we’ll see which other factors influence consumption and how to optimize it.
Account modes
How Azure uses RUs against us is determined by the mode selected on our Cosmos DB account. We specify ...