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| Community Forum | No | No | Yes |
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| Mode | Profile | Best For |
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| Uniform | Identical VMs | Legacy large-scale workloads |
| Feature | Flexible | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Standard VM APIs | Yes | No |
| Mix instance types | Yes | No |
| RBAC per VM | Yes | No |
| Azure Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Recovery | Yes | No |
| Fault domains | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Type | Layer | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Internal LB | L4 | Backend pools |
| Public LB | L4 | External traffic |
| App Gateway | L7 | HTTP/HTTPS + WAF |
| Policy | Rollout | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Batch | App can tolerate disruption |
| Rolling | Controlled | Gradual, managed updates |
| Manual | On-demand | Full control; explicit API calls |
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