High-performance, highly durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines
High-performance, highly durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines
Designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Disk Storage offers high-performance, highly durable block storage for your mission- and business-critical workloads. Choose from four disk storage options—Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD—to optimize costs and performance for your workload needs. Achieve sub-millisecond latency with high performance for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle®.
Optimize costs and get the precise storage you need for your workloads. Disk options come in sizes from 4 GB to 64 TB at a variety of price points and performance characteristics. Lower your total cost of ownership by reserving disk storage in advance. SQL Server on Azure VMs with Azure Disk Storage delivers better price-performance—up to 3.6 times faster and 84 percent cheaper than AWS EC21.
Run mission- and business-critical workloads confidently with 99.999 percent availability, and availability sets and availability zones to avoid costly downtimes. Azure offers 0 percent annualized failure rate durability and a single-instance service-level agreement of 99.9 percent availability. Minimize disruption to your business with support from Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
Get the performance and capacity you need, and scale up from gigabytes to petabytes of storage. Achieve high performance even at low storage capacities—Ultra Disk Storage is the highest-performing disk in the cloud. Create and manage disks by simply selecting the disk type and size.