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Azure Files Rate Limits

Azure Files Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Azure Files on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, including Storage account maximum IOPS (SSD provisioned v2) — 102,400 IOPS; Storage account maximum IOPS (HDD provisioned v2) — 50,000 IOPS; Storage account maximum IOPS (SSD provisioned v1) — 102,400 IOPS.

Tagged areas include Storage, File Storage, File Shares, NFS, and Cloud.

7 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-fil....
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Limits

Storage account maximum IOPS (SSD provisioned v2) per-storage-accountSSD provisioned v2
102,400 IOPS
Storage account maximum IOPS (HDD provisioned v2) per-storage-accountHDD provisioned v2
50,000 IOPS
Storage account maximum IOPS (SSD provisioned v1) per-storage-accountSSD provisioned v1
102,400 IOPS
Storage account maximum IOPS (HDD pay-as-you-go, default) per-storage-accountHDD pay-as-you-go
Default: 20,000 IOPS
Storage account maximum IOPS (HDD pay-as-you-go, select regions) per-storage-accountHDD pay-as-you-go
Select regions: 40,000 IOPS
Metadata IOPS, SMB with metadata caching or NFS per-share
SMB with metadata caching or NFS: up to 35,000 IOPS
Metadata IOPS, SMB without metadata caching per-share
SMB without metadata caching: up to 12,000 IOPS

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/azure-file-storage-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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