Hi sns
I came up in a test environment in the following configurations,
"imageReference": {
"publisher": "canonical",
"offer": "0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal",
"sku": "20_04-lts-gen2",
"version": "latest"
It worked, and the vm was provisioned, try to change imageReference
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