Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in Central US

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 Central US. 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**  

Central US 

Capacity (GiB): $0.147460

IOPS: $0.061320

MBPS: $0.395660 

Capacity (GiB): $0.125560 (15%)

IOPS: $0.040150 (35%)

MBPS: $0.099280 (75%) 

20% - 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.