• You're talking Azure VMs, not SQL Azure which is the platform as a service offering, not infrastructure.

    As far as disks go, the only ones available currently are through Azure blob storage which is hard capped at 500 iops. While you can stripe them into virtual disks to get more (roughly multiplicative, 2 disks = 1000 iops, etc.). But that's the only thing on offer at the moment.

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