Availability sets no longer available in the Portal

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Availability sets no longer available in the Portal

Jan Vávra 466

When creating an Azure VM from a disk, or even from scratch, the Availability options setting no longer offers Availability set. Obrázek uživatele

Is this intentional, or is it a bug?

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TP 163.1K Volunteer Moderator

Hi Jan,

Availability set option is not in the new Create-VM wizard, You should be able to click Click here to access the previous experience to get old version which still has Availability set option.

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You may have noticed that for past couple years or so they have been nudging people towards using VM Scale Sets (VMSS) instead of Availability sets by displaying messages in portal recommending VMSS any time you select Availability set. I see this as a continuation of that.

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-TP

Jan Vávra 466 Reputation points

2026-09-10T11:16:48.33+00:00

Thanks TP, that clears it up. Good to know it's intentional rather than a bug, and that the "previous experience" link still exposes the availability set option.

For now we'll keep using availability sets — creating the VMs via Azure PowerShell, or through the old wizard while it lasts. I expect that previous experience to disappear eventually too, so longer term we'll likely move to PowerShell/ARM for availability sets, or switch to zones/VMSS Flexible. Appreciate the quick response.
Jan Vávra 466 Reputation points

2026-09-10T11:26:01.35+00:00

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Jan Vávra 466 Reputation points

2026-09-10T11:27:20.8433333+00:00

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