Microsoft has made the most recent iteration of its Azure Premium variety of stable state drive (SSD) cloud storage obtainable for normal sale.
The corporate introduced the discharge of the most recent Azure Premium SSD v2 storage at its Ignite occasion, following an invite-only preview release in May 2022.
The brand-new variety of high-capacity drives for enterprises is designed to supply the bottom latency for “performance-critical workloads”, whereas additionally permitting storage growth of as much as 64 terabytes (TiB).
Microsoft Azure Premium v2 enhancements
Microsoft claims to have achieved “sub-millisecond” latency with the brand-new drives, providing 80,000 enter/output operations per second (IOPS) – a 60% enhancement over Azure Premium V1.
Knowledge transfers must also be lightning quick, with an assured baseline throughput of 125 megabytes per second (MBPS) throughout all drives beneath the brand-new specification, and a peak throughput of 1,200 MBPS – a total enhancement of 33% over V1.
The will increase in storage capability can also be of curiosity to Azure Premium SSD v1 customers who really feel restricted by the utmost 32 TiB obtainable.
Microsoft claims that the all-around will increase efficiency within the new drive vary will go well with a variety of manufacturing workloads and functions, from database software programs like SQL Server and Oracle to analytics, digital machines (VMs), and gaming.
The corporate is even seeking to courtroom enterprise clients who could not instantly want the advantages of Azure Premium V2, promising that corporations could provision storage capability, IOPS, and throughput “primarily based on their workload necessities”.
This might make the brand new set of drives attractive even to smaller companies who could go on to see regular progress, whereas concurrently serving giant corporations minimize their cloud prices throughout a recession.
