Merge pull request #212569 from cynthn/fresh-avsets

Freshness - av sets overview

Author: 19BMG00

articles/virtual-machines/availability-set-overview.md

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 title: Availability sets overview 
-description: Learn about the availability sets in Azure
+description: Learn about availability sets for virtual machines in Azure.
 author: mimckitt
 ms.author: mimckitt
 ms.service: virtual-machines
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 02/18/2021
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+ms.date: 09/26/2022
+ms.custom: engagement-fy23
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 # Availability sets overview
 
 **Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> We recommend that new customers choose [virtual machine scale sets with flexible orchestration mode](../virtual-machine-scale-sets/overview.md) for high availability with the widest range of features. Virtual machine scale sets allow VM instances to be centrally managed, configured, and updated, and will automatically increase or decrease the number of VM instances in response to demand or a defined schedule. Availability sets only offer high availability.
+> We recommend that customers choose [virtual machine scale sets with flexible orchestration mode](../virtual-machine-scale-sets/overview.md) for high availability with the widest range of features. Virtual machine scale sets allow VM instances to be centrally managed, configured, and updated, and will automatically increase or decrease the number of VM instances in response to demand or a defined schedule. Availability sets only offer high availability.
 
 This article provides you with an overview of the availability features of Azure virtual machines (VMs).
 
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ This article provides you with an overview of the availability features of Azure
 An availability set is a logical grouping of VMs that allows Azure to understand how your application is built to provide for redundancy and availability. We recommended that two or more VMs are created within an availability set to provide for a highly available application and to meet the [99.95% Azure SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/). There is no cost for the Availability Set itself, you only pay for each VM instance that you create.
 
 ## How do availability sets work?
-Each virtual machine in your availability set is assigned an **update domain** and a **fault domain** by the underlying Azure platform. Each availability set can be configured with up to three fault domains and twenty update domains. These configurations cannot be changed once the availability set has been created. Update domains indicate groups of virtual machines and underlying physical hardware that can be rebooted at the same time. When more than five virtual machines are configured within a single availability set with five update domains, the sixth virtual machine is placed into the same update domain as the first virtual machine, the seventh in the same update domain as the second virtual machine, and so on. The order of update domains being rebooted may not proceed sequentially during planned maintenance, but only one update domain is rebooted at a time. A rebooted update domain is given 30 minutes to recover before maintenance is initiated on a different update domain.
+Each virtual machine in your availability set is assigned an **update domain** and a **fault domain** by the underlying Azure platform. Each availability set can be configured with up to three fault domains and twenty update domains. These configurations can't be changed once the availability set has been created. Update domains indicate groups of virtual machines and underlying physical hardware that can be rebooted at the same time. When more than five virtual machines are configured within a single availability set with five update domains, the sixth virtual machine is placed into the same update domain as the first virtual machine, the seventh in the same update domain as the second virtual machine, and so on. The order of update domains being rebooted may not proceed sequentially during planned maintenance, but only one update domain is rebooted at a time. A rebooted update domain is given 30 minutes to recover before maintenance is initiated on a different update domain.
 
-Fault domains define the group of virtual machines that share a common power source and network switch. By default, the virtual machines configured within your availability set are separated across up to three fault domains. While placing your virtual machines into an availability set does not protect your application from operating system or application-specific failures, it does limit the impact of potential physical hardware failures, network outages, or power interruptions.
+Fault domains define the group of virtual machines that share a common power source and network switch. By default, the virtual machines configured within your availability set are separated across up to three fault domains. While placing your virtual machines into an availability set doesn't protect your application from operating system or application-specific failures, it does limit the impact of potential physical hardware failures, network outages, or power interruptions.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/virtual-machines-common-manage-availability/ud-fd-configuration.png" alt-text="Diagram showing various compute clusters split into fault domains and within those fault domains, we have multiple update domains":::
 
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 :::image type="content" source="./media/virtual-machines-common-manage-availability/md-fd-updated.png" alt-text="Diagram showing how the fault domains for disks and VMs are aligned.":::
 
 ## Next steps
-You can now start to use these availability and redundancy features to build your Azure environment. For best practices information, see [Azure availability best practices](/azure/architecture/checklist/resiliency-per-service).
+For best practices information, see [Azure availability best practices](/azure/architecture/checklist/resiliency-per-service).