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[Preview]: Virtual Machine Scale Sets with more than 2 availability zones should have automatic AZ rebalancing enabled

Azure BuiltIn Policy definition

Source Azure Portal
Display name [Preview]: Virtual Machine Scale Sets with more than 2 availability zones should have automatic AZ rebalancing enabled
Id 40d17f6f-a9d2-4f1d-8c37-a699a5372a87
Version 1.0.0-preview
Details on versioning
Versioning Versions supported for Versioning: 1
1.0.0-preview
Built-in Versioning [Preview]
Category Automatic Update
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Description This policy enables automatic AZ rebalancing for Virtual Machine Scale Sets that are otherwise zone resilient. Automatic zone rebalancing helps to ensure that your Virtual Machine Scale Sets are evenly distributed across the zones in the region.
Cloud environments AzureCloud = true
AzureUSGovernment = unknown
AzureChinaCloud = unknown
Available in AzUSGov Unknown, no evidence if Policy definition is/not available in AzureUSGovernment
Mode Indexed
Type BuiltIn
Preview True
Deprecated False
Effect Default
Modify
Allowed
Modify, Disabled
RBAC role(s)
Role Name Role Id
Virtual Machine Contributor 9980e02c-c2be-4d73-94e8-173b1dc7cf3c
Rule aliases IF (2)
Alias Namespace ResourceType Path PathIsDefault DefaultPath Modifiable
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/resiliencyPolicy.automaticZoneRebalancingPolicy Microsoft.Compute virtualMachineScaleSets properties.resiliencyPolicy.automaticZoneRebalancingPolicy True False
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/zones[*] Microsoft.Compute virtualMachineScaleSets zones[*] True False
THEN-Operations (1)
Alias Namespace ResourceType Path PathIsDefault DefaultPath Modifiable
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/resiliencyPolicy Microsoft.Compute virtualMachineScaleSets properties.resiliencyPolicy True True
Rule resource types IF (1)
Compliance Not a Compliance control
Initiatives usage none
History
Date/Time (UTC ymd) (i) Change type Change detail
2025-10-27 18:23:28 add 40d17f6f-a9d2-4f1d-8c37-a699a5372a87
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api-version=2021-06-01
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