Smart access tiers for Azure Blob Storage overview

Hello everyone,

Managing storage costs in cloud environments often becomes a balancing act between performance and price. Some data needs to be accessed frequently, while other data may sit unused for long periods of time but still needs to remain available.

Azure Blob Storage already provides different access tiers such as Hot, Cool, and Cold, allowing organizations to optimize storage costs depending on how frequently data is accessed. Now, Azure introduces a new capability called Smart Access Tiers, which helps automate this process.

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Public Preview – Ultra SSD Disk in Azure

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Guys, Microsoft doesn’t stop, they just launched the Ultra SSD, supporting up to 160k IOPs!!! Wow!! They will range from 4GB to 64TB for data storage, with less than 1ms read/write latency. These disks were developed for work environments such as SAP, SQL, ORACLE, etc… that demand large amounts of IOPs and large amounts of transactions. Managed Ultra SSD Disk:

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Official link with more details:: https://azure.microsoft.com/pt-pt/blog/announcing-ultra-ssd-the-next-generation-of-azure-disks-technology-preview/

Microsoft is surprising with new disk sizes in Azure… Up to 32TB with 20k IOPs in a single disk!!!

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Hey guys, Microsoft is surprising us with great news for storage in Microsoft Azure. Now we can count on “Large Disks” or in Portuguese: “Discos Grandes”. We will have the possibility of having up to 32TB for storage in a single data disk, with an incredible 20k IOPS, that’s right, 20k IOPs. Quite a lot, isn’t it?

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