Managed-Disks - 1

2026 (2)

February (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central

Azure Updates

2026-02-20

Azure Premium SSD v2 disks are now generally available in Brazil Southeast and expanded to a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central.

azure: [Launched] General Availability: Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk

Azure Updates

2026-02-17

Azure Disk Storage now generally supports instant access for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks, enabling immediate restores to new disks after snapshot creation.

2025 (1)

November (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery

Azure Updates

2025-11-17

Azure Site Recovery is now generally available with seamless failback support from Azure VMs that use managed disks back to on-premises Hyper-V, even when the original replication used a storage account.

2022 (1)

September (1)

azure: Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 31 March 2026 (formerly 30 September 2025)

Azure Updates

2022-09-23

Microsoft is retiring Azure unmanaged disks; the announced retirement date is 31 March 2026 (previously 30 September 2025). Azure Managed Disks, launched in 2017 and enhanced since, now provide feature parity and additional capabilities. Deprecation of unmanaged disks began earlier (announced in 2022), and customers are advised to migrate workloads to managed disks before the retirement date.