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Trigger Cosmos DB Failover

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Promote the secondary region to write for a multi-region Cosmos DB account, simulating a regional failover.
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Azure Cosmos DB accounts
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Trigger Cosmos DB Failover

Promote the secondary region to write for a multi-region Cosmos DB account, simulating a regional failover.
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Trigger Cosmos DB Failover

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Promote the secondary region to write for a multi-region Cosmos DB account, simulating a regional failover.
Install now

Trigger Cosmos DB Failover

Promote the secondary region to write for a multi-region Cosmos DB account, simulating a regional failover.
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Introduction

This action swaps the failover priorities of a multi-region Cosmos DB account so the secondary region becomes the new write region.

It validates that your application correctly follows the SDK's automatic write-region tracking and that retry / backoff logic survives the promotion.

Use Cases

  • Verify that applications using the official Cosmos DB SDKs follow the active write region without manual intervention.
  • Measure the end-to-end recovery time and write-error rate during a region promotion.
  • Exercise cross-region read consistency assumptions under a write-region change.

Rollback

This action does not support rollback — Cosmos DB region promotion is a one-way operation. Re-run the experiment with the original primary listed first to fail back.

Parameters

No parameters.

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License
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