---
type: resource-type
title: AvailabilitySet
description: azure resource type Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets
name: AvailabilitySet
lexicon: azure
resource_type: Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets
---
`Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets`, a resource type of the azure lexicon.

## Properties

- `name` (`string`, required): The name of the availability set.
- `properties` (`AvailabilitySet_AvailabilitySetProperties`, required): The instance view of a resource.
- `location` (`string`, optional): The geo-location where the resource lives
- `sku` (`AvailabilitySet_Sku`, optional): Sku of the availability set, only name is required to be set. See AvailabilitySetSkuTypes for possible set of values. Use 'Aligned' for virtual machines with managed disks and 'Classic' for virtual machines with unmanaged disks. Default value is 'Classic'.
- `tags` (`Record<string, unknown>`, optional): Resource tags.

## Attributes

- `id`