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Azure virtual machine scale sets are the focus of this tag, which currently highlights Microsoft's public preview for automatic zone placement. The tagged discussion explains how Azure can now choose availability zones for a scale set based on SKU availability, capacity, and placement rules such as spreading across three zones with no more than 50 percent in any one. It notes support for both Uniform and Flexible orchestration modes, and covers setup, limits, and capacity risks for teams that previously tracked zone lists per region. The content is practical and deployment-oriented, aimed at administrators planning resilient Azure VM capacity.
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    Azure VM Scale Sets Automatic Zone Placement Preview: Setup, Limits and Capacity Risks

    Microsoft has released a public preview that lets Azure choose the availability zones for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Until now, teams deploying the same scale set to several regions had to track which zones had their VM size and keep a separate zone list for each region. With automatic...