Unable to create an azure virtual machine of any series in any region.

Question

Hello,
So, I was trying to create a GPU spot instance on my Azure for Students subscription, unfortunately I couldn't get a vm apart from a vague unavailable for this sub message. No problem I thought, must be busy in this region. I then tried it on south central US, and here's where things started to seem off, it said my sub didn't have access to south central US.

Okay, that was weird, I tried in East US and it said the same thing, note: at this point, I gave up on a GPU instance I just wanted to try out any instance.
I then moved to West US 2, Oh good it seemed VMs were avaiable. I tried to create an instance from there, nope, it failed validation at the end.
Also note: I tried was trying with a non-spot vm.
I tried Australia, same thing with this message.

"The template deployment failed with error: 'The resource with id: '/subscriptions/"x"/resourceGroups/F1_group/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/F1' failed validation with message: 'The requested size for resource '/subscriptions/"x"/resourceGroups/F1_group/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/F1' is currently not available in location 'australiacentral' zones '' for subscription 'x' Please try another size or deploy to a different location or zones. See https://aka.ms/azureskunotavailable for details.'.'."

It seemed like I'd need to open support request for a quota increase, which is also unfortunately unavailable to Azure for Students Subscriptions.

So I tried combing through quite a large number of regions and the result was always one of the two above.

Thanks for any help you may provide

Answer 1

If you just want to try out something, why are you choosing such special machine types?

Ok, if you want to try GPU, I can understand but I don't think that it will be possible due to limited budgets on your Student subscription.
And F-types... you are running on a Student subscription (which is - at least in some parts - a sponsored subscription), that is limited in many areas... so you won't be able to deploy some special types of services/machines.

Have you tried to deploy a VM with a "normal" size? eg Standard D4 or A4, do you experience the same problems with those types?

Answer 2

Hi!
Unfortunately, free subscriptions, including Azure Free Account and Azure for Students, are not eligible for limit or quota increases. If you have a free subscription, you can upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go subscription.

reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits

You can try use 4 vCPUs or Less

Get in touch if you need more help with this issue.

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Answer 3

One of the regions where you can create an Azure virtual machine using the F1 free tier is "EastUS".

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