[leg]

Regional Persistent Disk was in beta in 2019. Usability hiccups and other annoyances meant it only GA'd in 2023, but it's been used under CloudSQL for quite a while.

(I work on GCP storage)

[jiggawatts]

To be fair, it’s notable that Azure doesn’t publish any information about consistency guarantees (or lack thereof).

I did notice in an article about using blob witness for SQL clusters that they’re not all interchangeable.