Generally Available: Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk

Announcing the General Availability of instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk. This new capability enables you to restore new disks immediately after creating snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks. Newly restored disks deliver high performance instantly, while data hydration continues rapidly in the background.

Instant access snapshots accelerate backup and recovery workflows, enabling faster environment refreshes and rapid scaling. Common use cases include:

• Create instant backups before software updates and revert quickly if needed.
• Quickly scale stateful applications by creating multiple copies of primary data for new instances, such as adding read-only SQL Server replicas.
• Rapid nightly refresh of training or testing environments from the production.

Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra Disk is available in all public regions where Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are supported. For pricing details, please visit Managed Disk Pricing.

Learn more:

• Watch the demo
• Get started by creating instant access snapshots for your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk here.