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# Proximity Placement Group

A Proximity Placement Group is an Azure resource that keeps related virtual machines and compute resources physically close within the same data center. This reduces network latency and improves performance for workloads that require tight coupling, such as high‑performance computing, distributed databases, or latency‑sensitive applications.

```
azure.compute_proximity_placement_group
```

## Fields

| Title                          | ID   | Type          | Data Type                                                                                                                                                                                 | Description |
| ------------------------------ | ---- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| _key                           | core | string        |
| availability_sets              | core | json          | A list of references to all availability sets in the proximity placement group.                                                                                                           |
| colocation_status              | core | json          | Instance view status.                                                                                                                                                                     |
| id                             | core | string        | Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. Ex - /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName} |
| intent                         | core | json          | Specifies the user intent of the proximity placement group.                                                                                                                               |
| location                       | core | string        | The geo-location where the resource lives                                                                                                                                                 |
| name                           | core | string        | The name of the resource                                                                                                                                                                  |
| proximity_placement_group_type | core | string        | Specifies the type of the proximity placement group. Possible values are: **Standard** : Co-locate resources within an Azure region or Availability Zone. **Ultra** : For future use.     |
| resource_group                 | core | string        |
| subscription_id                | core | string        |
| subscription_name              | core | string        |
| system_data                    | core | json          | Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.                                                                                                                    |
| tags                           | core | hstore_csv    |
| type                           | core | string        | The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"                                                                                 |
| virtual_machine_scale_sets     | core | json          | A list of references to all virtual machine scale sets in the proximity placement group.                                                                                                  |
| virtual_machines               | core | json          | A list of references to all virtual machines in the proximity placement group.                                                                                                            |
| zones                          | core | array<string> | The availability zones.                                                                                                                                                                   |