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Azure Managed Disks are the new and recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure virtual machines for persistent storage of data. You can use multiple Managed Disks with each virtual machine. We offer four types of Managed Disks – Ultra Disk, Premium SSD Managed Disks, Standard SSD Managed Disks, Standard HDD Managed Disks. For Azure Managed Disks, you will be billed on an hourly basis.
Are you looking for pricing details for Page Blobs (also referred to as Unmanaged Disks)? See Unmanaged Disk and Page Blob pricing.
Pricing reflects preview discount for items that are in preview. When the preview ends, GA pricing will be effective.
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US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners who have already purchased this, doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure trial.
Pricing details
Premium SSD Managed Disks
Premium SSD Managed Disks are high-performance Solid-state Drive (SSD) based Storage designed to support I/O intensive workloads with significantly high throughput and low latency. With Premium SSD Managed Disks, you can provision a persistent disk and configure its size and performance characteristics.
The total cost of Premium SSD Managed Disks depends on the size and number of the disks, and will be affected by the number of outbound data transfers. These disk sizes provide different input/output operations per sec (IOPS), throughput caps and monthly price per GiB. You choose the option that best meets your required storage size, IOPS and throughput. Attach several persistent disks to a VM and you can configure up to PBs of storage per VM, and achieve 80,000 input/output operations per second, and 1,600 MB per second disk throughput per VM at less than one millisecond latency for read operations (for applications which can take advantage of read caching). Premium SSD Managed Disks are supported by DS-series, DSv2-series, FS-series and GS-series VM sizes, which are specifically targeted for Premium SSD Managed Disks. When using Azure Shared Disks on Premium SSD Managed Disks, each additional mount of the managed disk is charged per month based on the disk size.
You can store full snapshots and images for Premium SSD Managed Disks on Standard storage. You can choose between locally redundant (LRS) and Zone redundant (ZRS) snapshot options. These snapshots and images are charged at $0.05/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 64 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, the snapshot will only be billed for the used data size of 10 GB. If you choose to store them on Premium SSD Managed Disk storage, you’ll be charged at $-/GB per month.
You can only store incremental snapshots for Premium SSD Managed Disks on Standard storage. They are charged at $0.05/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS snapshot options of the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is only billed for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you can create the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.
Besides, Azure Managed Disk Reservation helps you lower your disk storage cost by committing to one-year of Premium SSD Managed Disk capacity. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 1 disk unit for 1-year commitment duration. All prices are per month. For more information, please see Azure Disks FAQ.
| Disk Size | Price per month | 1-year Reserved Price Per Month |
IOPS per disk | Throughput per disk | Price per mount per month (shared disk) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 4 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 120 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 25 MB/second | N/A |
| P2 | 8 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 120 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 25 MB/second | N/A |
| P3 | 16 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 120 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 25 MB/second | N/A |
| P4 | 32 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 120 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 25 MB/second | N/A |
| P6 | 64 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 240 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 50 MB/second | N/A |
| P10 | 128 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 500 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 100 MB/second | N/A |
| P15 | 256 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 1,100 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 125 MB/second | $- |
| P20 | 512 GiB | $- | N/A | Up to 3,500 Provisioned 2,300 | Up to 170 MB/second Provisioned 150 MB/second | $- |
| P30 | 1 TiB | $- | $- | 5,000 | 200 MB/second | $- |
| P40 | 2 TiB | $- | $- | 7,500 | 250 MB/second | $- |
| P50 | 4 TiB | $- | $- | 7,500 | 250 MB/second | $- |
| P60 | 8 TiB | $- | $- | 16,000 | 500 MB/second | $- |
| P70 | 16 TiB | $- | $- | 18,000 | 750 MB/second | $- |
| P80 | 32 TiB (32767 GiB) | $- | $- | 20,000 | 900 MB/second | $- |
Managed disks are only available for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Please refer to the Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.
Standard SSD Managed Disks
Standard SSD Managed Disks, a low-cost SSD offering, are optimised for test and entry-level production workloads requiring consistent latency. Standard SSD Managed Disks can also be used for big data workloads that require high throughput. Standard SSD Managed Disks deliver lower latency compared to Standard HDDs, while improving reliability and scalability for your applications, and are available with all Azure VM sizes. Standard SSD Managed Disks can be easily upgraded to Premium SSD Managed Disks for more demanding and latency-sensitive enterprise workloads. Offered as a managed disk solution, Standard SSD Managed Disks come with the same industry leading durability and availability that you expect from Premium SSD Managed Disks.
The total cost of Standard SSD Managed Disk storage depends on the size and number of disks, the number of transactions, and the number of outbound data transfers.
You can store full snapshots and images for Standard SSD Managed Disks on Standard HDD storage. You can choose between locally redundant (LRS) and Zone redundant (ZRS) snapshot options. These snapshots and images are charged at $0.05/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 128 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, the snapshot will only be billed for the used data size of 10 GB. If you choose to store them on SSD storage, you’ll be charged at $-/GB per month.
You can only store incremental snapshots for Premium SSD Managed Disks on Standard storage. They are charged at $0.05/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS snapshot options of the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is only billed for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you can create the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.
| Disk Size | Price per month | IOPS per disk | Throughput per disk | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | 4 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E2 | 8 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E3 | 16 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E4 | 32 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E6 | 64 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E10 | 128 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E15 | 256 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E20 | 512 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E30 | 1 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E40 | 2 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E50 | 4 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| E60 | 8 TiB | $- | Up to 2,000 | Up to 400 MB/second |
| E70 | 16 TiB | $- | Up to 4,000 | Up to 600 MB/second |
| E80 | 32 TiB (32767 GiB) | $- | Up to 6,000 | Up to 750 MB/second |
Standard HDD Managed Disks
Standard HDD Managed Disks use Hard Disk Drive (HDD)-based Storage media. They are best suited for dev/test and other infrequent access workloads that are less sensitive to performance variability.
The total cost of Standard HDD Managed Disk storage depends on the size and number of disks, the number of transactions and the number of outbound data transfers.
Full snapshots and images are charged at $-/GB per month for both LRS and ZRS snapshot options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 64 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, the snapshot will only be billed for the used data size of 10 GB.
Incremental snapshots for Standard HDD Managed Disks are charged at $0.05/GB per month for both LRS and ZRS snapshot options based on the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is only billed for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you can create the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.
| Disk Size | Price per month | IOPS per disk | Throughput per disk | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | 32 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S6 | 64 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S10 | 128 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S15 | 256 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S20 | 512 GiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S30 | 1 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S40 | 2 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S50 | 4 TiB | $- | Up to 500 | Up to 60 MB/second |
| S60 | 8 TiB | $- | Up to 1,300 | Up to 300 MB/second |
| S70 | 16 TiB | $- | Up to 2,000 | Up to 500 MB/second |
| S80 | 32 TiB (32767 GiB) | $- | Up to 2,000 | Up to 500 MB/second |
Managed disks are only available for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Please refer to the Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.
Ultra Disk
Ultra Disk is our next generation high-performance Solid State Drive (SSD) with configurable performance attributes that provides the lowest latency and consistent high IOPS/throughput. Ultra Disk offers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency. As a customer, you can start small on IOPS and throughput and adjust your performance as your workload becomes more IO intensive.
The total cost of Ultra Disk depends on the size of the disk and its performance configuration, and will be affected by the number of disks.
Ultra Disk is available in different sizes that provide a configurable range of input/output operations per sec (IOPS), and a configurable range of throughput (MB/s), and is billed at an hourly rate. You choose the option that best meets your required storage size, IOPS and throughput.
The following table summarises the different configurations supported for different disk sizes:
| Ultra Disk offerings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disk size (GiB) | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 | 512 | 1,024-65,536 (in increments of 1 TiB) |
| IOPS range | 1,200 | 2,400 | 4,800 | 9,600 | 19,200 | 38,400 | 76,800 | 160,000 | 160,000 |
| Throughput range (MB/s) | 300 | 600 | 1,200 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Ultra Disk Configuration | Unit | Hourly price | Monthly price** |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disk Capacity (GiB) | GiB | $- | $- |
| Provisioned IOPS | IOPS | $- | $- |
| Provisioned throughput (MB/s) | Mbps | $- | $- |
| Provisioned vcpu reservation charge* | vCPU | $- | $- |
Ultra Disk is billed based on the provisioned size, provisioned IOPS and provisioned throughput. Azure maps the provisioned size (rounded up) to the nearest disk size offer. Each disk is billed accordingly on an hourly basis. For example, if you provisioned a 200 GiB Ultra Disk with 20,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/second and deleted it after 20 hours, it will map to the disk size offer of 256 GiB and you’ll be billed for the 256 GiB, 20,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/second for 20 hours. This is regardless of the amount of actual data and number of IOs written to the disk.
There is no charge per mount for shared Ultra Disks. You are only charged for the capacity and total IOPS and throughput on the disk. For more details, refer to the shared disk documentation.
Ultra Disk is only available for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Please refer to the Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.
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- Managed Disks are covered under Virtual Machines SLA and Storage SLA.
FAQ
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You will be charged the same rate for your provisioned disk, regardless of how much of the disk space is being used.
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The charges will be pro-rated on an hourly basis using the monthly price. For instance, Premium SSD for P15 is $- (price may vary per region). For October, you will be billed per $-/(31 days x 24 hours) = $-/hour
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