Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in all three available zones in Japan West

Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in all three available zones in Japan West

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in all three Availability Zones in Japan West.

Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional price performance for IO-intensive workloads at a low cost. Premium SSD v2 is suited for a broad range of enterprise production scenarios, including SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SAP, Cassandra, MongoDB, big data/analytics, and gaming on virtual machines or stateful containers.

If Premium SSD v2 is unavailable in your preferred region and you would like to use it, please complete this survey.

Generally Available: Azure Dl/D/E v7 Virtual Machines
Azure has announced the general availability of the new Dl/D/E v7 Virtual Machines, powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 (Granite Rapids) processors. These general‑purpose and memory‑optimized VMs deliver up to 20% better general compute performance compared to previous generation Intel‑based v6 VMs, alongside major improvements in scale, networking, and storage.
The v7 families support three memory-to-vCPU ratios (2:1, 4:1, and 8:1) and offer configurations with or without local NVMe temp disks. Customers can scale up to 372 vCPUs and 2.8 TiB of memory on Esv7/Edsv7 sizes, enabling larger and more demanding workloads.

Built on Azure Boost, the v7 VMs deliver up to 400 Gbps networking, up to 800k IOPS and 20 GBps of remote storage throughput, and up to 9.6M IOPS on local NVMe. Intel® AMX enables built‑in AI acceleration for inference workloads, while Intel® TME enhances memory security.

Dl/D/E v7 VMs are ideal for web and application servers, containerized workloads, databases, analytics, and in‑memory workloads such as SAP and Redis.

These VMs are now generally available in Central US, with additional regions coming soon.