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The ultra volumes tag on WindowsForum.com covers Azure NetApp Files capacity and performance tiers, with a focus on how Ultra volumes behave alongside Premium volumes in Microsoft's cloud storage service. Discussion here centers on the cool access enhancement reaching general availability, which replaced a fixed throughput penalty with a limit that scales according to how much data each volume has actually moved to the cool tier. For storage administrators running mixed hot and cold workloads, that shift changes how throughput and cost get planned across Premium and Ultra volumes in production Azure deployments.
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    Azure NetApp Files Cool Access GA: Dynamic Throughput for Premium and Ultra Volumes

    Microsoft has moved the Azure NetApp Files cool access enhancement for Premium and Ultra volumes from preview to general availability. Earlier, turning on cool access meant accepting a fixed throughput cut. Now the throughput limit follows how much of each volume's data has actually been moved...