Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in UK South

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 UK South. 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**  

UK South 

Capacity (GiB): $0.149650
 

IOPS: $0.062050
 

MBPS: $0.405880 

Capacity (GiB): $0.149650 (0%) 

IOPS: $0.024820 (60%)

MBPS: $0.081030 (80%) 

15% - 60% 

 

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.