Microsoft has announced the general availability GA of Standard SSD and Premium SSD support for Azure Ephemeral OS Disks. Previously, only Standard HDD could be selected as the base disk type; with this significant upgrade for stateless workloads, customers will see improved performance and reliability. As a bit of background, Azure Ephemeral OS Disks are designed for stateless virtual machines where the OS disk is local to the VM and not persisted to Azure Storage. They can be helpful for...
