Microsoft extends Instant Access snapshots for Azure managed disks: what changes for DR and recovery runbooks
Microsoft’s Instant Access snapshots for Azure Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2 change the restore story in a small but operationally important way: snapshots can be used immediately for rapid disk creation before the background copy finishes, then later settle into standard durable snapshot storage. For teams designing backup, DR, and environment-refresh workflows, that reduces waiting time — but it does not remove the need to think carefully about durability, region-copy behaviour, and failure domains.