Managed Disks

A new and recommended disk storage product for Azure Virtual Machines that facilitates persistent data storage.

Azure Managed Disks are the new and recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure virtual machines for persistent storage of data. You can use multiple Managed Disks with each virtual machine. We offer four types of Managed Disks — Super Disk, Premium SSD Managed Disks, Standard SSD Managed Disks, Standard HDD Managed Disks. For Azure Managed Disks, you will be billed on an hourly basis.

Are you looking for pricing details for Page Blobs also referred as Unmanaged Disks? See Unmanaged Disk and Page Blob pricing .

Pricing reflects preview discount for items that are in preview. When the preview ends, GA pricing will come in to effect.

Pricing details

Premium SSD Managed Disks

Premium SSD Managed Disks are high performance Solid State Drive (SSD) based Storage designed to support I/O intensive workloads with significantly high throughput and low latency. With Premium SSD Managed Disks, you can provision a persistent disk and configure its size and performance characteristics.

The total cost of Premium SSD Managed Disks depends on the size and number of the disks, and will be affected by the number of outbound data transfers . These disk sizes provide different input/output operations per sec (IOPS), throughput caps, and monthly price per GiB. You choose the option that best meets your required storage size, IOPS, and throughput. Attach several persistent disks to a VM and you can configure up to PBs of storage per VM, and achieve 80,000 input/output operations per second, and 1,600 MB per second disk throughput per VM at less than one millisecond latency for read operations (for applications which can take advantage of read caching). Premium SSD Managed Disks are supported by DS-series, DSv2-series, FS-series, and GS-series VM sizes which are specifically targeted for Premium SSD Managed Disks. When using Azure Shared Disks on Premium SSD Managed Disks, each additional mount of the managed disk is charged per month based on the disk size.

Snapshots

You can store full snapshots and images for Premium SSDs on Standard storage. You can choose between locally redundant (LRS) and zone redundant (ZRS) snapshot options. These snapshots and images are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 64 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, snapshot will be billed only for the used data size of 10 GB. If you choose to store them on Premium SSDs Managed Disk storage, you’ll be charged at ¥2.338/GB per month.

You can store incremental snapshots for Premium SSDs only on Standard storage. They are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS snapshot options of the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is billed only for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you created the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.

Bursting

For P20 disks and smaller, credit-based bursting is enabled by default with no additional costs. You can boost your performance up to 3,500 IOPS and 170 MB/s for up to 30 min to handle spiky traffic, process batch jobs, and improve boot times.

For P30 disks and larger, you will be charged a monthly enablement fee of¥248.5 to enable on-demand bursting and a burst transaction fee of¥0.05056 per 10,000 IOs for additional IOPS. You can boost your performance up to 30,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s at any point in time. For example, if you provision a P30 disk with 5,000 IOPS and you burst to 30,000 IOPS for 5 seconds, you will be charged an enablement fee to enable the bursting feature as well as a burst transaction fee for the additional 25,000 X 5 = 125,000 IOs. If you burst your throughput above the provisioned amount, you will also be charged a burst transaction fee for the additional throughput.

Besides, Azure Managed Disk Reservation helps you lower your disk storage cost by committing to one-year of Premium SSD Managed Disk capacity. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 1 disk unit for 1-year commitment duration. All prices are per month. For more information, please see Azure Disks FAQ .
*The following prices are tax-inclusive.

*Monthly pricing estimates are based on 744 hours of usage per month.
Disk Size Price per month Max IOPS (Max IOPS w/ bursting) Max throughput (Max throughput w/ bursting) Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
P1 4 GiB ¥6.07 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥0.3
P2 8 GiB ¥12.13 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥0.61
P3 16 GiB ¥24.27 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥1.22
P4 32 GiB ¥42.04 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥2.63
P6 64 GiB ¥81.28 240 (3,500) 50 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥4.75
P10 128 GiB ¥116.87 500 (3,500) 100 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥9.2
P15 256 GiB ¥225.41 1100 (3,500) 125 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥18.45
P20 512 GiB ¥434.2 2300 (3,500) 150 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥33.22
P30 1 TiB ¥801.55 5,000 (30,000) 200 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥66.44
P40 2 TiB ¥1,536.1 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥132.87
P50 4 TiB ¥2,938.64 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥258.37
P60 8 TiB ¥5,877.28 16,000 (30,000) 500 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥516.74
P70 16 TiB ¥11,754.55 18,000 (30,000) 750 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥1107.29
P80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥23,509.12 20,000 (30,000) 900 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥2214.58
Disk Size Price per month Max IOPS (Max IOPS w/ bursting) Max throughput (Max throughput w/ bursting) Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
P1 4 GiB ¥6.07 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥0.3
P2 8 GiB ¥12.13 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥0.61
P3 16 GiB ¥24.27 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥1.22
P4 32 GiB ¥42.04 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥2.63
P6 64 GiB ¥81.28 240 (3,500) 50 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥4.75
P10 128 GiB ¥116.87 500 (3,500) 100 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥9.2
P15 256 GiB ¥225.41 1100 (3,500) 125 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥18.45
P20 512 GiB ¥434.2 2300 (3,500) 150 MB/second(170 MB/second) ¥33.22
P30 1 TiB ¥801.55 5,000 (30,000) 200 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥66.44
P40 2 TiB ¥1,536.1 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥132.87
P50 4 TiB ¥2,938.64 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥258.37
P60 8 TiB ¥5,877.28 16,000 (30,000) 500 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥516.74
P70 16 TiB ¥11,754.55 18,000 (30,000) 750 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥1107.29
P80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥23,509.12 20,000 (30,000) 900 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) ¥2214.58
Disk Size Price per month Max IOPS (Max IOPS w/ bursting) Max throughput (Max throughput w/ bursting) Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
P1 4 GiB ¥6.07 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P2 8 GiB ¥12.13 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P3 16 GiB ¥24.27 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P4 32 GiB ¥47.23 120 (3,500) 25 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P6 64 GiB ¥91.33 240 (3,500) 50 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P10 128 GiB ¥131.32 500 (3,500) 100 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P15 256 GiB ¥253.27 1100 (3,500) 125 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P20 512 GiB ¥487.86 2300 (3,500) 150 MB/second(170 MB/second) N/A
P30 1 TiB ¥900.62 5,000 (30,000) 200 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
P40 2 TiB ¥1,725.97 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
P50 4 TiB ¥3,301.85 7,500 (30,000) 250 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
P60 8 TiB ¥6,603.68 16,000 (30,000) 500 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
P70 16 TiB ¥13,207.37 18,000 (30,000) 750 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
P80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥26,414.73 20,000 (30,000) 900 MB/second(1,000 MB/second) N/A
Premium Disk has no transaction processing expenses.

Managed disks are only available for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Please refer to Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.

Standard SSD Managed Disks

Standard SSD Managed Disks, a low-cost SSD offering, are optimized for test and entry-level production workloads requiring consistent latency. Standard SSD Managed Disks can also be used for big data workloads that require high throughput. Standard SSD Managed Disks deliver lower latency compared to Standard HDDs, while improving reliability and scalability for your applications, and are available with all Azure VM sizes. Standard SSD Managed Disks can be easily upgraded to Premium SSD Managed Disks for more demanding and latency-sensitive enterprise workloads. Offered as a managed disk solution, Standard SSD Managed Disks come with the same industry leading durability and availability that you expect from Premium SSD Managed Disks.

The total cost of Standard SSD Managed Disk storage depends on the size and number of disks, the number of transactions, and the number of outbound data transfers . When using Azure shared disks on Standard SSDs, each additional mount of disk is charged per month based on the disk size.

Snapshot

You can store full snapshots and images for Standard SSDs on Standard HDD storage. You can choose between locally-redundant (LRS) and zone redundant (ZRS) snapshot options. These snapshots and images are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 128 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, snapshot will be billed only for the used data size of 10 GB. If you choose to store them on SSD storage, you’ll be charged at ¥1.221/GB per month.

You can store incremental snapshots for Premium SSDs only on Standard storage. They are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS snapshot options of the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is billed only for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you created the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.

*Monthly pricing estimates are based on 744 hours of usage per month.
Disk Size Price per month IOPS per disk Throughput per disk Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
E1 4 GiB ¥3.96864 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥0.39702
E2 8 GiB ¥7.93728 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥0.7956
E3 16 GiB ¥15.87456 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥1.5912
E4 32 GiB ¥24.96 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥3.4398
E6 64 GiB ¥49.92 Up to 240 Up to 50 MB/second ¥6.2166
E10 128 GiB ¥99.84 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥12.0354
E15 256 GiB ¥199.68 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥24.2112
E20 512 GiB ¥399.36 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥43.524
E30 1 TiB ¥798.72 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥86.9154
E40 2 TiB ¥1,597.44 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥173.823
E50 4 TiB ¥3,194.88 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥337.9974
E60 8 TiB ¥6,389.76 Up to 2,000 Up to 400 MB/second ¥675.9948
E70 16 TiB ¥12,779.52 Up to 4,000 Up to 600 MB/second ¥1,448.538
E80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥25,559.04 Up to 6,000 Up to 750 MB/second ¥2,897.076
Disk Size Price per month IOPS per disk Throughput per disk Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
E1 4 GiB ¥3.0528 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥0.3054
E2 8 GiB ¥6.1056 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥0.612
E3 16 GiB ¥12.2112 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥1.224
E4 32 GiB ¥19.2 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second ¥2.646
E6 64 GiB ¥38.4 Up to 240 Up to 50 MB/second ¥4.782
E10 128 GiB ¥76.8 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥9.258
E15 256 GiB ¥153.6 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥18.624
E20 512 GiB ¥307.2 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥33.48
E30 1 TiB ¥614.4 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥66.858
E40 2 TiB ¥1,228.8 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥133.71
E50 4 TiB ¥2,457.6 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥259.998
E60 8 TiB ¥4,915.2 Up to 2,000 Up to 400 MB/second ¥519.996
E70 16 TiB ¥9,830.4 Up to 4,000 Up to 600 MB/second ¥1114.26
E80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥19,660.8 Up to 6,000 Up to 750 MB/second ¥2228.52
Disk Size Price per month IOPS per disk Throughput per disk Price per mount per month (Shared Disk)
E4 32 GiB ¥24.4224 Up to 120 Up to 25 MB/second N/A
E6 64 GiB ¥48.8448 Up to 240 Up to 50 MB/second N/A
E10 128 GiB ¥97.6896 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second N/A
E15 256 GiB ¥195.3792 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second N/A
E20 512 GiB ¥390.7584 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second N/A
E30 1 TiB ¥781.5168 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second ¥66.858
E40 2 TiB ¥1,563.0336 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second N/A
E50 4 TiB ¥3,126.0672 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second N/A
E60 8 TiB ¥6,252.13 Up to 2,000 Up to 400 MB/second N/A
E70 16 TiB ¥12,504.27 Up to 4,000 Up to 600 MB/second N/A
E80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥25,008.54 Up to 6,000 Up to 750 MB/second N/A

We charge ¥0.02 per 10,000 transaction units for Standard SSD Managed Disks. Any type of operation against the storage is counted as a transaction, including reads, writes and deletes. We use IO unit size of 256 KiB for counting the billable transaction units. Please refer to Standard SSD documentation for more information.

Standard HDD Managed Disks

Standard HDD Managed Disks use Hard Disk Drive (HDD) based Storage media. They are best suited for dev/test and other infrequent access workloads that are less sensitive to performance variability.

The total cost of Standard HDD Managed Disk storage depends on the size and number of disks, the number of transactions, and the number of outbound data transfers .

Snapshots

Full snapshots and images are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both LRS and ZRS snapshot options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 64 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, snapshot will be billed only for the used data size of 10 GB.

Incremental snapshots for Standard HDDs are charged at ¥0.3/GB per month for both LRS and ZRS snapshot options based on the storage occupied by the delta changes since the last snapshot. For example, you are using a managed disk with provisioned size of 128 GB and used size of 100 GB. The first incremental snapshot is billed only for the used size of 100 GB. 20 GB of data is added on the disk before you created the second snapshot. Now, the second incremental snapshot is billed for only 20 GB.

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.

*Monthly pricing estimates are based on 744 hours of usage per month.
Disk Size Price per month IOPS per disk Throughput per disk
S4 32 GiB ¥11.232 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S6 64 GiB ¥22.464 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S10 128 GiB ¥44.928 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S15 256 GiB ¥89.856 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S20 512 GiB ¥179.712 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S30 1 TiB ¥359.424 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S40 2 TiB ¥718.848 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S50 4 TiB ¥1,437.696 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S60 8 TiB ¥2,875.392 Up to 1,300 Up to 300 MB/second
S70 16 TiB ¥5,750.784 Up to 2,000 Up to 500 MB/second
S80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥11,501.57 Up to 2,000 Up to 500 MB/second
Disk Size Price per month IOPS per disk Throughput per disk
S4 32 GiB ¥8.64 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S6 64 GiB ¥17.28 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S10 128 GiB ¥34.56 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S15 256 GiB ¥69.12 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S20 512 GiB ¥138.24 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S30 1 TiB ¥276.48 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S40 2 TiB ¥552.96 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S50 4 TiB ¥1105.92 Up to 500 Up to 60 MB/second
S60 8 TiB ¥2211.84 Up to 1,300 Up to 300 MB/second
S70 16 TiB ¥4423.68 Up to 2,000 Up to 500 MB/second
S80 32 TiB (32767 GiB) ¥8847.36 Up to 2,000 Up to 500 MB/second
We charge RMB 0.0044 for every 10,000 Standard Managed Disk transaction. Any type of operations for storage are considered to be transactions, including: reads, writes and deletions.

Ultra Disk

Ultra Disk is our next generation high performance Solid State Drive (SSD) with configurable performance attributes that provides the lowest latency and consistent high IOPS/throughput. Ultra Disk offers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency. As a customer you can start small on IOPS and throughput and adjust your performance as your workload becomes more IO intensive.

The total cost of Ultra Disk depends on the size of the disk and its performance configuration and will be affected by the number of disks.

Ultra Disk is available in different sizes that provide a configurable range of input/output operations per sec (IOPS), and a configurable range of throughput (MB/s), and is billed on an hourly rate. You choose the option that best meets your required storage size, IOPS, and throughput. Ultra Disk only supports locally redundant storage (LRS). Please refer to Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.

The following table summarizes the different configurations supported for different disk sizes:

Disk Size (GiB) 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1,024-65,536 (in increments of 1 TiB)
Max IOPs 1,200 2,400 4,800 9,600 19,200 38,400 76,800 153,600 160000
Max Throughput (MB/s) 300 600 1,200 2,400 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4000
* Please refer to the Ultra Disk documentation page for the full details on how to configure the disks.
Ultra Disk Configuration Unit Hourly Price Monthly Price **
Disk Capacity (GiB) GiB ¥0.00167 ¥1.242
Provisioned IOPS IOPS ¥0.000692 ¥0.515
Provisioned Throughput (MB/s) MBps ¥0.004874 ¥3.626
Provisioned vcpu reservation charge * vCPU ¥0.06106 ¥45.428
* This reservation charge is only imposed if you enable Ultra Disk compatibility on the VM without attaching an Ultra Disk.

** Price is based on 744 hours per month.

Ultra Disk is billed based on the provisioned size, provisioned IOPS and provisioned throughput. Azure maps the provisioned size (rounded up) to the nearest disk size offer. Each disk is billed accordingly on an hourly basis. For example, if you provisioned a 200 GiB Ultra Disk, with 20,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/second and deleted it after 20 hours, it will map to the disk size offer of 256 GiB and you'll be billed for the 256 GiB, 20,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/second for 20 hours. This is regardless of the amount of actual data and number of IOs written to the disk.

There is no charge per mount for shared Ultra Disks. You are charged for the capacity and total IOPS and throughput on the disk. For more details, refer to the shared disk documentation .

Ultra Disk only supports locally redundant storage (LRS). Please refer to Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.

Managed disks are only available for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Please refer to Azure Storage replication page for more details on redundancy options.

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)

Create multiple synchronous copies of data in a Data Center.

To learn more about the redundancy options and how to use these options to obtain high availability, please view the Azure Storage Space Replication Page .

FAQ

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Support & SLA

If you have any questions or need help, please visit Azure Support and select self-help service or any other method to contact us for support.

We guarantee that we can successfully process data reading requests from an Read-access Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) account at least 99.99% of the time (99.9% for the Cool Access Tier), provided that we will retry in the secondary zone from the data writing failure from the primary zone.

We guarantee that we can successfully process data reading from Locally redundant storage (LRS) and Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) accounts at least 99.9% of the time (99% for the Cool Access Tier)

We guarantee that we can successfully process data writing requests into Locally redundant storage (LRS) and geo-redundant storage (GRS) accounts and read and access Read-access Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) accounts at least 99.9% of the time (99% for the Cool Access Tier).

To learn more about the details of our Service Level Agreement, please visit the Service Level Agreements page.

The Managed Disk itself doesn’t provide a Service Level Agreement with financial support. The availability of a Managed Disk depends on the Service Level Agreement governing the basic storage used and the Virtual Machine it’s attached to. To learn more about the details of the Service Level Agreement of the Managed Disk, please visit the Managed Disk Service Level Agreements page.