Getting “A task was cancelled” while trying to create a document in DocumentDB [duplicate]

Answer 1

I had a similar error thrown using one of DocumentClients async functions. I used await correctly for each call but then I found that this was caused by a proxy server interfering with the traffic. So for those working from inside a company network - consider checking this.

Answer 2

Just try client.

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