Updated: July 27, 2020 (September 9, 2019)

Azure Ultra Disk Storage Generally Available

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Managed Disk Type	Ultra Disk	Premium SSD	Standard SSD	Standard HDD
Overview	High performance, dynamically tunable without restarting host VMs. Same availability levels as other disk types.	Consistent performance with low-latency and high availability for production workloads.	Consistent performance for low IOPS workloads. Better availability and latency than Standard HDD disks.	Low-cost mass storage for infrequent access using conventional disk drives. Performance can vary.
Use scenarios	I/O-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, top-tier databases (for example, SQL Server, Oracle), and other transaction-heavy workloads.	Enterprise workloads, such as SQL Server, Dynamics, Exchange Server, MongoDB, and other production workloads.	Web servers, low IOPS application servers, and lightly used enterprise applications.

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