Microsoft Foundry feature availability across cloud regions

Note

This article refers to the Microsoft Foundry (classic) portal.

🔄 Switch to the Microsoft Foundry (new) documentation if you're using the new portal.

Microsoft Foundry brings together various Azure AI capabilities that were previously only available as standalone Azure services. While Microsoft strives to make all features available in all regions where Foundry is supported at the same time, feature availability might vary by region. In this article, you learn what Foundry features are available across cloud regions.

Foundry projects

Foundry is currently available in the following Azure regions. You can create either a Foundry project or hub-based project in Foundry in these regions.

• Australia East
• Brazil South
• Canada Central
• Canada East
• Central India
• Central US
• East Asia
• East US
• East US 2
• France Central
• Germany West Central
• Italy North

• Japan East
• Korea Central
• North Central US
• North Europe
• Norway East
• Qatar Central
• South Africa North
• South Central US
• South India
• Southeast Asia

• Spain Central
• Sweden Central
• Switzerland North
• UAE North
• UK South
• West Europe
• West US
• West US 3
• US Gov Virginia
• US Gov Arizona

Foundry features

Use the following list to investigate regional availability for specific features you plan to use.

• Azure OpenAI: Some models might not be available within the model catalog. Azure OpenAI quotas and limits.
• Speech capabilities: Azure Speech capabilities, including custom neural voice, vary in regional availability due to underlying hardware availability. Speech service supported regions
• Serverless deployment: Some models in the model catalog can be deployed as serverless deployments. Region availability for models in serverless deployment
• Azure AI Content Safety: To use the Content Safety APIs, create your Azure AI Content Safety resource in a supported region. What is Azure AI Content Safety?
• Agent Service: Agent Service supports Azure OpenAI model deployments, but exact model and tool availability varies by region. Agent Service region availability

How to verify region support for your workload

Use this process before you create resources:

1. Select a candidate project region from the Foundry projects list in this article.
2. Verify model and quota availability in Azure OpenAI quotas and limits.
3. Verify feature-specific support in the Foundry features list links.
4. Confirm the final service list in Azure global infrastructure products by region.

Quick decision checklist

Before you choose a production region, confirm all answers are Yes:

• Is your required model available in the target region?
• Do you have enough quota in that region for your expected traffic?
• Are all dependent services (for example, Speech, Content Safety, Agent Service tools) available in that region?
• Do your compliance requirements require a sovereign cloud region?
• Have you validated availability in both docs and your portal experience for the same subscription and tenant?

When you validate availability, keep these constraints in mind:

• Azure OpenAI quotas are allocated per region, per subscription, and per model or deployment type.
• Azure Speech keys are region-specific and only work for the region where the Speech resource is created.
• The region list in this article is a documentation snapshot. Always verify against the linked service-specific and infrastructure pages before production rollout.

Troubleshoot region mismatch issues

If a feature isn't available in your selected region:

• Use the feature-specific regional availability article linked in Foundry features.
• Create the required dependent resource in a supported region.
• Re-check model availability and quota limits for that region.
• For Speech workloads, confirm that your app configuration uses the same region as your Speech resource.
• If your organization requires a sovereign cloud, review Foundry in sovereign clouds in this article.

Foundry in sovereign clouds

Azure Government (United States)

Available only to US government entities and their partners. For more information, see Azure Government documentation and Compare Azure Government and global Azure.

• Foundry portal URL:
  • https://ai.azure.us/
• Regions:
  • US Gov Arizona
  • US Gov Virginia
• Available pricing tiers:
  • Standard. For more information, see Foundry pricing.
• Supported features:
  • Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
  • Foundry Tools
    • Speech
    • Speech playground (preview)
    • Language playground (preview)
    • Language + Translator
    • Vision + Document
    • Content Safety
  • Model catalog. For the list of supported models, see Machine learning cloud parity.
  • Templates (preview)
  • Prompt flow
  • Tracing (preview)
  • Guardrails & controls
    • Content filters
    • Profanity blocklist (preview)
  • Management center
• Unsupported features in Azure Government regions:
  • Serverless endpoints 
  • Content Understanding
  • Agents playground
  • Images playground
  • Real-time audio playground
  • Healthcare playground
  • Fine-tuning
  • Azure AI Agents
  • Batch jobs
  • Azure OpenAI Evaluation
  • Deploy Web App
  • VS Code Extension

Use AI to find the best region

Use AI to help you find the right region for your needs. Open Ask AI and customize this prompt for your specific case:

   Based on the features I need for my Foundry project, which regions would you recommend to create the project? 
   I need: [list your required features here, such as: gpt-4o models, speech capabilities, custom avatar training, etc.]

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Next step

• Azure global infrastructure products by region