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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +services: cosmos-db |
| 3 | +author: seesharprun |
| 4 | +ms.service: cosmos-db |
| 5 | +ms.subservice: nosql |
| 6 | +ms.topic: include |
| 7 | +ms.date: 11/07/2022 |
| 8 | +ms.author: sidandrews |
| 9 | +ms.reviewer: mjbrown |
| 10 | +ms.custom: include file |
| 11 | +--- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com). |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +1. From the Azure portal menu or the **Home page**, select **Create a resource**. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +1. On the **New** page, search for and select **Azure Cosmos DB**. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +1. On the **Select API option** page, select the **Create** option within the **NoSQL** section. Azure Cosmos DB has six APIs: NoSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, Apache Gremlin, and Table. [Learn more about the API for NoSQL](../nosql/index.yml). |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | + :::image type="content" source="media/create-nosql-account/api-choices.png" lightbox="media/create-nosql-account/api-choices.png" alt-text="Screenshot of select API option page for Azure Cosmos DB."::: |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +1. On the **Create Azure Cosmos DB Account - Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL** page, enter the following information: |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + | Setting | Value | |
| 26 | + | --- | --- | |
| 27 | + | Subscription | Select the Azure subscription that you wish to use for this Azure Cosmos account. | |
| 28 | + | Resource Group | Select a resource group, or select **Create new**, then enter a unique name for the new resource group. | |
| 29 | + | Account Name | Enter a name to identify your Azure Cosmos account. The name will be used as part of a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) with a suffix of *documents.azure.com*, so the name must be globally unique. The name can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, and the hyphen (-) character. The name must also be between 3-44 characters in length. | |
| 30 | + | Location | Select a geographic location to host your Azure Cosmos DB account. Use the location that is closest to your users to give them the fastest access to the data. | |
| 31 | + | Capacity mode | Select **Provisioned throughput** to create an account in [provisioned throughput](../set-throughput.md) mode. | |
| 32 | + | Apply Azure Cosmos DB free tier discount | Choose whether you wish to enable Azure Cosmos DB free tier. With Azure Cosmos DB free tier, you'll get the first 1000 RU/s and 25 GB of storage for free in an account. Learn more about [free tier](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/cosmos-db/). | |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | + > [!NOTE] |
| 35 | + > You can have up to one free tier Azure Cosmos DB account per Azure subscription and must opt-in when creating the account. If you do not see the option to apply the free tier discount, this means another account in the subscription has already been enabled with free tier. |
| 36 | +
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| 37 | + :::image type="content" source="media/create-nosql-account/new-account.png" lightbox="media/create-nosql-account/new-account.png" alt-text="Screenshot of new account page for API for NoSQL."::: |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +1. Select **Review + create**. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +1. Review the settings you provide, and then select **Create**. It takes a few minutes to create the account. Wait for the portal page to display **Your deployment is complete** before moving on. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +1. Select **Go to resource** to go to the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account page. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + :::image type="content" source="media/create-nosql-account/deployment-complete.png" lightbox="media/create-nosql-account/deployment-complete.png" alt-text="Screenshot of deployment page for an API for NoSQL resource."::: |
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