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title: "Instant access incremental snapshots: Restore without waiting"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/instant-access-incremental-snapshots-restore-without-waiting-bz9ckvlci
source_url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/instant-access-incremental-snapshots-restore-without-waiting/
type: article
source: "Microsoft Azure"
published: 2026-03-03T19:37:28.294Z
updated: 2026-03-03T19:38:00.757Z
tags: ["azure"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
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# Instant access incremental snapshots: Restore without waiting

**[Microsoft Azure](https://daily.dev/sources/azure)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Microsoft Azure has introduced instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk. Unlike standard incremental snapshots that require a full background data copy before use, instant access snapshots are immediately available upon creation. Restored disks deliver near-full performance from the start with single-digit millisecond read latencies. The feature stores data in the same high-performance storage as the source disk for a configurable duration, while simultaneously copying to Standard ZRS in the background. Key use cases include fast rollback before deployments, uninterrupted maintenance windows, rapid scale-out of stateful workloads, and refreshing dev/test environments. Enabling it requires adding a single parameter (InstantAccessDurationMins) to existing Azure CLI snapshot commands. Pricing is usage-based, covering additional storage capacity and restore operations.

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