Before you say, "Shahid, we have learned this in previous chapters, why do it again now?", I want to hold you up there. I know we did cover this topic in our previous chapters, but I would like to revisit it, because it's really important for your application deployment plan.
If you are a DevOps, you can thank me later (they know what I mean).
Cosmos DB provides a competitive feature, which none of the other managed database providers, such as Amazon, Rackspace, and so on, offer, at least at the time of writing. Hence, it becomes a very important selling point of Cosmos DB.
Let's revisit it again and see how it can help your deployment plan. So, you can replicate your data across more than 30 regions on the planet with just a few clicks of a button (not really one click, but very simple). That's what turnkey global distribution means.
So, a possible use case in the deployment plan could be as follows. Suppose you have an SaaS-based application and you have a huge customer...