What happens when managed disk is deleted?

Question

Hi support- can you tell me what happens in the background when a azure managed disk is deleted, I.e how does it get wiped?

I found the data destruction part here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/protection-customer-data#data-protection but wanted to know what the ‘strict process’ is and if there is a certification behind it, if so what?

Answer 1

@Anit Patel When a disk is deleted, it depend of it is soft deleted or hard, If hard deleted then there will be a garbage collection triggered at the backend
If it's a soft delete , then there won't be Garbage collection will be initiated

This article describes the data restore scenarios for Azure Storage service: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/general/data-restore-storage
Fundamentals of garbage collection: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/fundamentals.

Hope this helps!

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