Performance tiers for Azure Disk Storage are in limited preview
Published date: 21 July, 2020
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to set performance tiers (in limited preview) of your Premium SSD for a specific duration of time without increasing the capacity of the disk. Performance tiers provide the flexibility to achieve higher performance while controlling costs. This helps to sustain high-performance demands such as running a training environment during daytime, performance-testing, or an event like Black Friday.
Your provisioned disk is first set to a baseline performance tier based on its size. When your application has higher performance demands, choose a higher performance tier, then return your provisioned disk to the baseline performance tier when the high-demand period is over.
For example, if you provision a P10 disk (128GB), your baseline performance tier is set as P10 (500 IOPS and 100MB/s). You can upgrade the tier to match the performance of P50 (7500 IOPS and 250MBs) and return to P10 when higher performance is no longer needed.
Sign up for the limited preview.