Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

Premium SSD v2 is engineered for performance-sensitive workloads that consistently need low average read and write latency combined with high IOPS and throughput. Premium SSD v2 is the next-generation Azure Disk Storage Premium SSD offering and is well-suited to broad range of production workloads such as – SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SAP, Cassandra, Mongo DB, big data/analytics, gaming, on virtual machines or stateful containers.

With Premium SSD v2, you can provision separately the IOPS, throughput, and disk storage capacity you need. As a result, you can cost-effectively scale performance when deploying transaction-intensive workloads. Premium SSD v2 provides a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s for any disk size that is offered at no additional cost. Premium SSD v2 storage capacity can range from a minimum of 1 GiB to a maximum of 64 TiBs with GiB increments.

Learn more by reading the blog and the documentation for additional details, or request access to the preview.