Build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Key trends from Cosmos Conf 2026
Every year, Azure Cosmos DB Conf offers a window into how modern applications are built—not in theory, but in production at global scale.
This year, the key theme from Cosmos Conf was clear: AI is not just another workload. It is fundamentally reshaping how applications—and data platforms—are built.
In the opening keynote, VP of Azure Cosmos DB Kirill Gavrylyuk described three key shifts driving this transformation, and we saw them play out across every customer story at the event.
The three AI shifts reshaping application architecture with Azure Cosmos DB
AI is making flexible, semi-structured data foundational
AI applications don’t operate on rigid schemas. They operate on prompts, memory, and context, all of which are inherently semi-structured and evolving over time.
This fundamentally changes how databases must behave.
Data platforms are no longer just systems of record—they are becoming systems of reasoning, where flexibility is critical to how applications...
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