A Cosmos DB container has 10,000 RU/s provisioned. A bulk write of 1 million documents is required. What happens if the operation exceeds the RU/s limit?
- A Documents are silently dropped
- B Cosmos DB throws a 429 (Too Many Requests) error; the SDK retries after the Retry-After header interval (correct answer)
- C The container autoscales to handle the burst
- D Writes queue indefinitely
Shortcut: Exceeding provisioned throughput results in HTTP 429 errors with a Retry-After header. The Cosmos DB SDK handles retries automatically. Use bulk operations with retries for large imports.