Generally available: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place backups of the following types of disks

## Feature **Generally available**: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place backups of the following types of disks: * Hyperdisk Balanced * Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability * Hyperdisk Extreme Instant snapshots are ideal for rapid data restoration only within the same location as the source disk. You can use an instant snapshot to create a new disk in under a minute. For more information, see [About instant snapshots](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/instant-snapshots).