diff --git a/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_azure.go b/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_azure.go
index 9e4a4e36..94706f38 100644
--- a/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_azure.go
+++ b/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_azure.go
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ func resourceClusterAzure() *schema.Resource {
 						},
 						"azs": {
 							Type:     schema.TypeSet,
-							Required: true,
+							Optional: true,
 							Set:      schema.HashString,
 							Elem: &schema.Schema{
 								Type: schema.TypeString,
diff --git a/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_maas.go b/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_maas.go
index 1237ae35..2e3ad423 100644
--- a/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_maas.go
+++ b/spectrocloud/resource_cluster_maas.go
@@ -626,6 +626,9 @@ func toMachinePoolMaas(machinePool interface{}) (*models.V1MaasMachinePoolConfig
 	if len(m["placement"].([]interface{})) > 0 {
 		Placement := m["placement"].([]interface{})[0].(map[string]interface{})
 		mp.CloudConfig.ResourcePool = types.Ptr(Placement["resource_pool"].(string))
+	} else {
+		rp := ""
+		mp.CloudConfig.ResourcePool = &rp // backend is not accepting nil, rather pointer to empty string.
 	}
 
 	if !controlPlane {