Instant access incremental snapshots for Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk recovery (opens in new tab)

Azure introduced instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk, enabling immediate disk restores without waiting for the background data copy to finish. By specifying the InstantAccessDurationMins parameter at snapshot creation time, snapshots enter the InstantAccess state immediately, allowing you to create and attach new disks right away with near-full performance. This article covers the requirements, configuration steps using the Azure CLI, PowerShell, ...