Premium SSDs are high-performance Solid-State Drive (SSD) based Storage designed to support I/O intensive workloads with significantly high throughput and low latency.
Premium SSD disks, on the other hand, perform better than Standard SSD disks, with very low latencies, high IOPS/throughput and even better consistency with provisioned disk performance, and it is the recommended disk type for all other production workloads.
Microsoft Azure offers two service tiers for its storage services: Standard Storage and Premium Storage. The Premium tier stores data on modern solid state drives (SSDs), while the Standard tier uses hard disk drives (HDDs). … Standard storage, which is offered at lower cost, can be used for less demanding workloads.
