Merge pull request #264496 from TheovanKraay/patch-67

Changes to Cassandra mi product wording to reflect true service capability

Author: v-dirichards

articles/cosmos-db/cassandra/choose-service.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ In this article, you will learn the differences between [Azure Managed Instance
 
 ## Key differences
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment, scaling, and operations to maintain the node health for open-source Apache Cassandra instances in Azure. It also provides the capability to scale out the capacity of existing on-premises or cloud self-hosted Apache Cassandra clusters. It scales out by adding managed Cassandra datacenters to the existing cluster ring.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed. It also provides the capability to scale out the capacity of existing on-premises or cloud self-hosted Apache Cassandra clusters. It scales out by adding managed Cassandra datacenters to the existing cluster ring.
 
 The RU-based [Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra](introduction.md) in Azure Cosmos DB is a compatibility layer over Microsoft's globally distributed cloud-native database service [Azure Cosmos DB](../index.yml).
 
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ The following table shows the common scenarios, workload requirements, and aspir
 | |Self-hosted Apache Cassandra on-premises or in Azure | Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra | Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra |
 |---------|---------|---------|---------|
 |**Deployment type**| You have a highly customized Apache Cassandra deployment with custom patches or snitches. | You have a standard open-source Apache Cassandra deployment without any custom code. | You are content with a platform that is not Apache Cassandra underneath but is compliant with all open-source client drivers at a [wire protocol](../cassandra-support.md) level. |
-|**Operational overhead**| You have existing Cassandra experts who can deploy, configure, and maintain your clusters.  | You want to lower the operational overhead for your Apache Cassandra node health, but still maintain control over the platform level configurations such as replication and consistency. | You want to eliminate the operational overhead by using a fully managed Platform-as-as-service database in the cloud. |
+|**Operational overhead**| You have existing Cassandra experts who can deploy, configure, and maintain your clusters.  | You want to eliminate the operational overhead by using a fully managed Database-as-as-Service for open-source Apache Cassandra, but have the option of controling Cassandra-specific configurations such as replication and consistency when required. | You want to eliminate the operational overhead by using a fully managed Platform-as-as-service database in the cloud. |
 |**Production Support**| You handle live incidents and outages yourself, including contacting relevant infrastructure teams for compute, networking, storage, etc. | You want a first-party managed service experience that will act as a one-stop shop for supporting live incidents and outages. | You want a first-party managed service experience that will act as a one-stop shop for live incidents and outages. |
-|**Software Support**| You handle all patches, and ensure that software is upgraded before end of life.| You want a first-party managed service experience that will offer Cassandra software level support beyond end of live| You want a first-party managed service experience where software level support is completely abstracted.|
-|**Operating system requirements**| You have a requirement to maintain custom or golden Virtual Machine operating system images. | You can use vanilla images but want to have control over SKUs, memory, disks, and IOPS. | You want capacity provisioning to be simplified and expressed as a single normalized metric, with a one-to-one relationship to throughput, such as [request units](../request-units.md) in Azure Cosmos DB. |
+|**Software Support**| You handle all patches, and ensure that software is upgraded before end of life.| You want a first-party managed service experience that will offer Cassandra software level support beyond end of live, automated patching, and turnkey upgrades for major versions | You want a first-party managed service experience where software level support is completely abstracted.|
+|**Operating system requirements**| You have a requirement to maintain custom or golden Virtual Machine operating system images. | You can use vanilla images but want to have control over the selection of SKUs, memory, disks, and IOPS. | You want capacity provisioning to be simplified and expressed as a single normalized metric, with a one-to-one relationship to throughput, such as [request units](../request-units.md) in Azure Cosmos DB. |
 |**Pricing model**| You want to use management software such as Datastax tooling and are happy with licensing costs. | You prefer pure open-source licensing and VM instance-based pricing. | You want to use cloud-native pricing, which includes [autoscale](scale-account-throughput.md#use-autoscale) and [serverless](../serverless.md) offers. |
 |**Analytics**| You want full control over the provisioning of analytical pipelines regardless of the overhead to build and maintain them. | You want to use cloud-based analytical services like Azure Databricks. | You want near real-time hybrid transactional analytics built into the platform with [Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB](../synapse-link.md). |
 |**Workload pattern**| Your workload is fairly steady-state and you don't require scaling nodes in the cluster frequently. | Your workload is volatile and you need to be able to scale up or scale down nodes in a data center or add/remove data centers easily. | Your workload is often volatile and you need to be able to scale up or scale down quickly and at a significant volume. |

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/best-practice-performance.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ keywords: azure performance cassandra
 
 # Best practices for optimal performance
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters. This article provides tips on how to optimize performance.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed. This article provides tips on how to optimize performance.
 
 
 ## Optimal setup and configuration

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/configure-hybrid-cluster-cli.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ms.devlang: azurecli
 ---
 # Quickstart: Configure a hybrid cluster with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters. This service helps you accelerate hybrid scenarios and reduce ongoing maintenance. 
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed.
 
 This quickstart demonstrates how to use the Azure CLI commands to configure a hybrid cluster. If you have existing datacenters in an on-premises or self-hosted environment, you can use Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra to add other datacenters to that cluster and maintain them.
 

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/create-cluster-cli.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ms.devlang: azurecli
 
 # Quickstart: Create an Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra cluster using Azure CLI
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters. This service helps you accelerate hybrid scenarios and reduce ongoing maintenance.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed.
 
 This quickstart demonstrates how to use the Azure CLI commands to create a cluster with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra. It also shows to create a datacenter, and scale nodes up or down within the datacenter.
 

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/create-cluster-portal.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ms.custom:
 ---
 # Quickstart: Create an Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra cluster from the Azure portal
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters, accelerating hybrid scenarios and reducing ongoing maintenance.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed
 
 This quickstart demonstrates how to use the Azure portal to create an Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra cluster.
 

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/create-multi-region-cluster.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ms.devlang: azurecli
 
 # Quickstart: Create a multi-region cluster with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters. This service helps you accelerate hybrid scenarios and reduce ongoing maintenance.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed.
 
 This quickstart demonstrates how to use the Azure CLI commands to configure a multi-region cluster in Azure.
 

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/dba-commands.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ms.author: thvankra
 
 # DBA commands for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment, scaling, and [management operations](management-operations.md) for open-source Apache Cassandra data centers. The automation in the service should be sufficient for many use cases. However, this article describes how to run DBA commands manually when the need arises. 
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed. This article describes how to run DBA commands manually when the need arises. 
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > Nodetool and sstable commands are in public preview.

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/introduction.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ms.date: 11/02/2021
 
 # What is Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra?
 
-The Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters. This service helps you accelerate hybrid scenarios and reduce ongoing maintenance.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/introduction/icon.gif" alt-text="Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a managed service for Apache Cassandra." border="false":::
 

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/management-operations.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ms.date: 11/02/2021
 
 # Management operations in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra data centers. This article defines the management operations and features provided by the service. It also explains the separation of responsibilities between the Azure support team and customers when maintaining standalone and [hybrid](configure-hybrid-cluster.md) clusters.
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed. This article defines the management operations and features provided by the service. It also explains the separation of responsibilities between the Azure support team and customers when maintaining [hybrid](configure-hybrid-cluster.md) clusters.
 
 ## Compaction
 
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ Snapshot backups are enabled by default and taken every 24 hours. Backups are st
 
 To restore from an existing backup, file a [support request](https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Support/HelpAndSupportBlade/newsupportrequest) in the Azure portal. When filing the support case, you need to:
 
-1. Provide the backup id from portal for the backup you want to restore. This can be found in the portal:
+1. Provide the backup ID from portal for the backup you want to restore. This can be found in the portal:
 
-    :::image type="content" source="./media/management-operations/backup.png" alt-text="Screenshot of backup schedule configuration page highlighting backup id." lightbox="./media/management-operations/backup.png" border="true":::
+    :::image type="content" source="./media/management-operations/backup.png" alt-text="Screenshot of backup schedule configuration page highlighting backup ID." lightbox="./media/management-operations/backup.png" border="true":::
 
 1. If restore of the whole cluster is not required, provide the keyspace and table (if applicable) that needs to be restored.
 1. Advise whether you want the backup to be restored in the existing cluster, or in a new cluster.

articles/managed-instance-apache-cassandra/materialized-views.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ms.date: 02/15/2022
 
 # Materialized views in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
 
-Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Apache Cassandra data centers. This article discusses how to enable materialized views. 
+Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a fully managed service for pure open-source Apache Cassandra clusters. The service also allows configurations to be overridden, depending on the specific needs of each workload, allowing maximum flexibility and control where needed. This article discusses how to enable materialized views. 
 
 ## Materialized view support
 Materialized views are disabled by default, but users can enable them on their cluster. However, we discourage users of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra from using materialized views. They are experimental (see