Access my resource through application

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Access my resource through application

Prateek Singh 20

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I want to disable public network access on my Cosmos DB resource and use a private endpoint to ensure a secure connection. For testing, I created a virtual machine to check connectivity and ran the nslookup command, which worked. Now, I would like to use a graphical application like Azure Storage Explorer inside the VM to connect to my Cosmos DB resource and view it through the application. Is this possible?

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2025-10-30T12:04:28.14+00:00

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Amira Bedhiafi 42,941 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hello Prateek !

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Learn Q&A.

As far as I know you can use a GUI from inside that VM to browse Cosmos DB over your private endpoint, but Azure Storage Explorer isn’t the right tool anymore since its Cosmos DB integration has been deprecated.

You can use the following

Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer for full CRUD and the web Data Explorer needs you to enable the allow access from Azure portal networking exception and if you’ve fully disabled public access, the portal can’t reach your account until that checkbox is enabled. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/data-explorer
VS Code Azure Cosmos DB extension
API-specific clients from the VM like Mongo API, Cassandra API and Gremlin/SQL SDKs

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2025-10-31T16:19:33.5566667+00:00

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