Games are highly mission critical and should be very much available at all times. That requires fast and highly available databases. Azure has already proved its worth in games such as Halo 5, The Walking Dead, and so on. Azure Cosmos DB performance can be used to handle millions of requests and to show real-time data feeds and social engagement.

Azure Cosmos DB provides an API that can be directly used in games, and with the help of database functions such as Hadoop, could be used for real-time analysis and feeds.

Let's look over the web and mobile use case.