Instant Access for application and crash consistent restore points

[Aarthi-Vijaya-raghavan]

Preconditions

• No need to upgrade Python SDK or the Python SDK is ready.

Related command

az restore-point collection create --location "norwayeast" --source-id "/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVM" --tags myTag1="tagValue1" --resource-group "myResourceGroup" --collection-name "myRpc" --instantAccess instantAccess=true

az restore-point create --exclude-disks "/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/myResour ceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/disk123" --resource-group "myResourceGroup" --collection-name "rpcName" --name "rpName --instantAccessDurationMinutes "120"

Resource Provider

Microsoft.Compute/restorePointCollections

Description of Feature or Work Requested

Instant Access is an option customers can use to immediately restore their disks from restore points created from premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks.
The work requested is to enable the feature at restore point collection, restore point and disk restore point level.

Minimum API Version Required

2025-04-01

Swagger PR link / SDK link

Azure/azure-rest-api-specs#37787

Request Example

No response

Target Date

2026-02-28

PM Contact

aarthiv@microsoft.com

Engineer Contact

ppusuluri@microsoft.com

Additional context

No response

[yonzhan]

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Reference:

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