Azure Managed Disks
How Azure Managed Disks really work and what interviewers probe: the five disk types, Premium SSD v2 with IOPS and throughput set apart from size, the VM size cap above every disk, credit and on-demand bursting, performance tiers, ZRS and shared disks across zones, incremental snapshots, encryption at host replacing Azure Disk Encryption, and the unmanaged disk retirement of March 31, 2026.
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