Microsoft has shipped a long-awaited enhancement to Azure managed disk snapshots: Instant Access Snapshots for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk. With general availability declared in mid‑February 2026, Azure customers can now create incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks that are...
Microsoft Azure has extended its instant access snapshot capability to the highest-performance block storage tiers — Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk — enabling administrators and operators to create disks from snapshots immediately while Azure finishes the background data copy (hydration)...
Microsoft Azure has put instant access snapshots for Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disks into public preview — a change that reduces snapshot restore time from hours to minutes or seconds by allowing newly-created snapshots of Azure’s highest-performance disks to be used immediately to create...
Suppose you're a data-hungry enterprise IT pro, lying awake at night, haunted by the thought of cloud storage latency stealing precious milliseconds from your mission-critical workloads. Microsoft has heard your silent weeping—and graciously responded by turbocharging its Azure Managed Disks...