• As the name suggests provides a managed disk experience by abstracting the storage account
• Disks are created with no visibility of storage account removing worries around IOPS per storage account
• Disks and snapshots become ARM resources
• Price based on provisioned capacity
• Can be dynamically expanded for data disks (not Ultra/Premium v2)
  • never shrink
• No [[202404091908 Azure Storage Redundancy#Geo-redundant storage (GRS)]] option
  • ZRS for Std/Premium SSDv1
• SSD and Ultra disk have maxShares property
• Can have CMK (Customer Managed Key)
  • configure disk encryption set

Types

• Standard HDD
• Standard SSD
• Premium SSD (v1 and v2)
• Ultra

Premium SSD v2 and Ultra we can pick IOPS and Throughput separately. And pay accordingly.

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