OVERVIEW
Optimize block storage for your workloads
- Scale your top-tier, data-intensive, high-performance workloads with granular control of capacity and performance.
- Get enterprise-grade durability with a 0% annual failure rate with redundancy options for managed disks.
- Optimize costs by choosing disk storage options ranging from 1 GB to 64 TB and tailoring performance to workload needs.
- Meet security and compliance needs with enhanced encryption, built-in data durability, and role-based access control.
FEATURES & WORKLOADS
Get storage security and performance at scale
Shared disks
Attach a disk to multiple virtual machines (VMs) simultaneously to streamline app deployment or migration of clustered apps to Azure.
Performance tiers
Tailor throughput, use disk bursting, and select performance tiers to improve performance and cost efficiency.
Built-in security
Secure your data with automatic server-side encryption using platform-managed keys or, optionally, customer-managed keys.
Incremental snapshots
Minimize downtime, costs, and data loss and ensure business continuity by enabling cross-zone and cross-region disk copy.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) disks
Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures, ensuring high VM availability while eliminating data replication across zones.
Resiliency
Minimize disruptions, lower costs, and reduce time spent with point-in-time snapshots and solutions.
Input/output-intensive applications
Scale to meet your performance needs for mission critical IO-intensive enterprise applications such as SAP HANA.
Enterprise production workloads
Get consistent low latency for workloads including SQL Server, NoSQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
Big data applications
Achieve consistent high throughput to run big data apps such as Cloudera/Hadoop and dev/test workloads.
Data-intensive workloads
Access high-performance, scalable block storage with millions of IOPS using Azure Elastic SAN for transaction-heavy workloads.
Stateful containers
Run production-scale stateful applications using high-performance persistent volumes tightly integrated with Kubernetes.
Cluster applications
Easily migrate your on-premises Windows and Linux-based clustered or highly available applications to Azure.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
PRICING
Get the data disk storage you need at competitive prices
Choose the disk type you need—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD v2, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, or Standard HDD—and use multiple disks with each virtual machine. Lower your total cost of ownership by purchasing disk storage reservations at a discounted rate. Use the pricing calculator to configure and estimate the cost of your disk storage.
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FAQ
- Data disks on Ultra Disk Storage hold up to 64 TB per disk. Data disks on Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD hold up to 32 TB. The number of data disks you can use depends on the size of the virtual machine.
- Each of the five disk types differs in performance characteristics, so you can configure your storage based on your workload needs. Learn more
- After you purchase a reservation, a discount is automatically applied to the disk resources that match the terms of your reservation. The reservation discount applies to disk SKUs only. Learn more about reservation discounts.
- Bursting is enabled by default on new and existing deployments of the supported virtual machines and disks—no additional steps are required. Learn more about bursting.
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