Flexible service level allows you to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, optimizing costs and performance by right-sizing based on your needs. This new service level avoids overprovisioning by supporting a customizable throughput which could be up to five times that of the Ultra service level. This makes it ideal for demanding workloads (like Oracle or SAP HANA) offering higher throughput for smaller capacity pools, and for creating high-capacity volumes with low throughput needs. Right-sizing the throughput and capacity ensures flexibility and precise scaling to meet your price-performance requirements without the need for volume moves.
Flexible service level is supported with manual QoS capacity pools, where throughput can be adjusted between 128 MiB/s to 640 MiB/s per provisioned TiB. A baseline throughput of 128 MiB/s is provided for every pool irrespective of the size, at no additional cost. This provides a way to save on costs for capacity-heavy workloads with lower performance needs by offering lower throughput on larger capacity footprints and for demanding workloads requiring higher throughput with smaller capacity needs.
You can take advantage of this service level in these regions, with newly created pools only. We will be adding support for the other Azure NetApp Files supported regions soon.