Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Australia Central 2 and Norway West

Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage are now available in Australia Central 2 and Norway West regions. Azure Ultra Disk Storage delivers high throughput, high IOPS, and consistently low latency for Azure virtual machines, making it ideal for data-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, top-tier databases, and transaction-heavy applications. Azure Premium SSD v2, a next-generation general-purpose block storage solution, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional price performance for IO-intensive workloads at a low cost. It is well-suited for a broad range of enterprise production scenarios, including SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SAP, Cassandra, MongoDB, big data analytics, gaming on virtual machines, and stateful containers. In case Premium SSD v2 is not available in your preferred region and you wish to use it, please fill out the [survey](https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR-RCiBc4xFRMmnTBK3cIuGRUNzFLVFVEUFZFTERLN0FGT0czQ0gwVDA0UC4u). **Learn more:** * Read the [documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-types#premium-ssd-v2). * For more information about Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage pricing, visit the Azure Managed Disks [pricing page](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/managed-disks/).