Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West
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Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Austria East and in a second Availability Zone in Japan West.
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. Premium SSD v2 is suited for a broad range of enterprise production scenarios, including SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SAP, Cassandra, MongoDB, big data/analytics, and gaming on virtual machines or stateful containers.
If Premium SSD v2 is unavailable in your preferred region and you would like to use it, please complete this [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 Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage pricing, visit the Azure Managed Disks [pricing page](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/managed-disks/).
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