Ensure VM availability sets or zones are used
Production VMs should use availability sets or availability zones for high availability.
Security Impact
Single VMs have no protection against hardware failures or maintenance events.
How to Remediate
Deploy VMs across availability zones or in availability sets for fault tolerance.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- azure-compute-14
- Service
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Category
- High Availability
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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