There were a variety of ways for me to do so by invoking more Azure services, but I stopped trying at that point, because even after smoothing it out, Cosmos wo

There were a variety of ways for me to do so by invoking more Azure services, but I stopped trying at that point, because even after smoothing it out, Cosmos would still be 50x as expensive as a basic VM running Mongo. But also, every time I start stringing together cloud services, I experience two things: first, exploding complexity because now I'm adding points of failure, integrations, transformations, to keep it all running; and second, this sense of "the whole point of the cloud is to simplify things, to offer canned services and features that save me the trouble of doing this in code for myself." Once I'm using cloud features to work around cloud limitations, I bail out because if I'm going to spend that time (and money), I'm going to get the benefits of something much more direct.