Monday, 27 July 2026

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1. Secure Cosmos DB Onboarding: RBAC, Managed Identity and CMK

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Cosmos DB control-plane and data-plane RBAC Internal access-request and approval process
Built-in and custom roles Human-user and technical-user onboarding
Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities MIM/Group ID creation and assignment
Group-based access management Role Sync and future Group ID access model
Customer-managed keys and Key Vault integration CMK ownership, Key Vault access and audit evidence
RBAC troubleshooting and common errors Support ownership and escalation process

2. Cosmos DB Resilience, Backup and Disaster Recovery

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Availability zones and multi-region deployment BCM initiation and approval process
Single-write and multi-write region design Internal RPO and RTO expectations
Automatic and manual failover options Failover ownership and communication process
Continuous backup and point-in-time restore Restore-request and validation process
Failure scenarios and recovery options Change, incident and escalation requirements
Microsoft support process for backend failover BCM evidence and exercise documentation

3. Cosmos DB Cost and RU Optimisation

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Request Unit calculation and consumption Internal cost ownership and reporting
Manual versus autoscale throughput Lower-environment throughput standards
Database-level versus container-level throughput Approval process for high-cost configurations
Query, partition-key and indexing impact on RUs Audit-to-Deny policy lifecycle
TTL and storage optimisation Cost exception and expiry process
Monitoring and identifying high-RU operations Cost tracker and periodic review process

4. Cosmos DB Performance Troubleshooting for Application Teams

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Troubleshooting latency and throttling First-level checks before escalation
HTTP 429 errors and SDK retry behaviour Application-team versus SRE ownership
Hot-partition identification Required information in support tickets
Query and indexing optimisation Internal incident and escalation process
Regional preference and SDK configuration Log, metric and evidence requirements
Cosmos DB monitoring and diagnostic tools GitLab tracking and follow-up ownership

5. Policy-Compliant Cosmos DB Deployment

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Secure Cosmos DB deployment patterns Internal Control Plane and pipeline workflow
Backup, networking, CMK and RBAC configuration Mandatory policy metadata and category values
Private endpoint configuration CI validation and release requirements
Azure Policy effects: Audit, Deny, DINE and AINE Internal policy review and approval lifecycle
ARM, Bicep and Terraform considerations Policy tracker, evidence and ownership
Recommended compliance controls Exception and remediation process

6. Cosmos DB Migration and Adoption

External — Microsoft Product Content Internal — Bank Process and Governance
Account and container migration approaches Application onboarding and eligibility assessment
Container Copy and supported migration tools Internal approval for Preview features
Source-to-target connectivity requirements Migration Factory engagement process
Data validation and reconciliation Naming and policy-compliance checks
Migration performance and RU planning Production-readiness and change approval
Rollback and post-migration validation Ownership, support and decommissioning process

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