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Azure Disk Storage

High-performance, durable block storage for your mission-critical applications.

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Overview

Azure Disk Storage provides high-performance, durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Azure offers several types of disksβ€”Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDDβ€”each designed for different customer scenarios. These disks are managed, persistent storage volumes that can be attached to VMs as OS disks or data disks. They are designed for 99.999% availability and provide enterprise-grade durability.

✨ Key Features

  • Multiple performance tiers (Ultra, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, HDD)
  • High durability with multiple replicas of data
  • Enterprise-grade security with encryption at rest by default
  • Backup and disaster recovery with Azure Backup
  • Scalable performance and capacity
  • Shared disks for clustered applications

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Ultra Disk tier offers sub-millisecond latency and configurable performance
  • Shared disks feature for building clustered applications
  • Strong integration with Azure Backup for simplified data protection

Unique Value: Delivers secure, durable, and scalable block storage with a wide range of performance options to meet the needs of any virtualized application.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

OS and data disks for virtual machines Storage for transactional and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra) High-performance computing (HPC) applications Big data and analytics workloads Clustered applications like failover clusters or SAP

βœ… Best For

  • Providing the boot volume for a Windows or Linux VM
  • Storing a high-throughput SQL Server database on Premium or Ultra disks
  • Attaching a large data disk to a VM for analytics processing

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Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Object storage for unstructured data (use Azure Blob Storage)
  • Network file shares (use Azure Files)

πŸ† Alternatives

Amazon EBS Google Persistent Disk

Offers a highly competitive range of performance tiers, with its Ultra Disk offering pushing the boundaries of cloud block storage performance for the most demanding enterprise applications.

πŸ’» Platforms

API Web

πŸ”Œ Integrations

Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Backup

πŸ›Ÿ Support Options

  • βœ“ Email Support
  • βœ“ Live Chat
  • βœ“ Phone Support
  • βœ“ Dedicated Support (Professional Direct, Premier tier)

πŸ”’ Compliance & Security

βœ“ SOC 2 βœ“ HIPAA βœ“ BAA Available βœ“ GDPR βœ“ ISO 27001 βœ“ SSO βœ“ SOC βœ“ ISO βœ“ PCI DSS βœ“ HIPAA βœ“ FedRAMP

πŸ’° Pricing

$1.54/mo
Free Tier Available

βœ“ 30-day free trial

Free tier: Includes 2 P6 SSDs (64 GB) for 12 months with the Azure Free Account.

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