We are happy to announce the general availability of enabling Azure Backup on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk on GRS vaults. Premium SSD v2 offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of IO-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies as well as high IOPS and throughput — at a low cost. With GRS and cross-region restore support, you can protect your virtual machines from data loss during a disaster and perform periodic audits by restoring data on demand in the secondary region.
Enabling GRS vaults for VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk are available in Southeast Asia, East Asia, North Europe, West Europe, East US, West US, and West US 3. Support will be rolled out to other public regions in the upcoming months.
To learn more and keep track of region support, refer to the VM backup support matrix.