AZ499401 - Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in West US 2

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Published

Sep 2, 2025

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • August 2025
    General Availability

Product

Azure Disk Storage

Tag

Pricing & Offerings
Features

Category

Storage

Description

Ultra Disks are the most performant block storage option for Azure virtual machines offering consistent low sub-millisecond latency, extremely high performance. This makes Ultra disk ideal for a broad spectrum of the most demanding enterprise production workloads, such as SAP HANA, top-tier databases, and transaction-heavy systems that require the highest levels of performance. 

To support customers running these mission-critical workloads more cost-effectively, we are reducing Ultra Disk pricing in West US 2. The new pricing is effective on August 1, 2025. See the table below for details.


 

Previous Pricing ($/month*) 

New Pricing

($/month*) 
(% lower of Previous Pricing) 

Estimated Ultra Disk Cost % Saving**  

West US 2 

Capacity (GiB): $0.119720

IOPS: $0.049640
 

MBPS: $0.349670 

Capacity (GiB): $0.119720 (0%)
 

IOPS: $0.037230 (25%)
 

MBPS: $0.175200 (50%) 

10% - 40% 

Learn more:  

  • Read about Ultra Disk. 
  • For more information about Ultra Disk Storage pricing, visit the Azure Managed Disks pricing page. 
*Price is based on 730 hours per month. 

​**: Exact Ultra Disk cost % saving will be based on customer's Ultra Disk capacity, IOPS and throughput configuration in the corresponding region. The estimated cost saving % is calculated based on observed common customer usage.