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Region restriction policy preventing deployment in Azure for Students

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2025-10-20T03:36:27.49+00:00

Hello,

I am using an Azure for Students subscription, and I am unable to deploy any resources in any region. Every time I try to deploy, I receive this error message:

"This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources. The objective of this policy is to ensure that your subscription has full access to Azure services with optimal performance. Should you need additional or different regions, contact support."

I have tried multiple regions (e.g., Australia East, East US, Southeast Asia), but all fail with the same message.

It seems that my subscription has a region restriction policy applied that currently blocks all regions.

Please help review and enable available regions for my Azure for Students subscription so I can deploy resources for my coursework.

Details:

  • Subscription type: Azure for Students
  • Subscription ID: 1a2607a5-d182-4c78-af33-3ea64e137ecd
  • Regions tried: Australia East, East US, Southeast Asia (all failed)
  • Error: Region restriction policy prevents deployment in all regions
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  1. TP 142.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-10-20T05:42:03.0766667+00:00

    Hi,

    Azure for Students restricts which regions you can deploy resources to. Typically you are restricted to five different regions, and these vary for each person.

    Please navigate to Azure Policy -- Authoring -- Assignments using link below:

    https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_Azure_Policy/PolicyMenuBlade/~/Assignments

    Click on assignment named Allowed resource deployment regions

    User's image

    Examine Allowed locations Parameter value for list of regions, similar to below (regions in screenshot are different than yours):

    User's image

    The regions shown in your Parameter value are the ones you are allowed to deploy resources to. Please try to create resources in one of these regions and let me know the results.

    Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

    Thanks.

    -TP

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