Unable to complete Microsoft Learn exercise due to conflicting availability status of UK South region

Question

I am working on a lab exercise as part of the Microsoft Learn course, specifically following the instructions in this exercise: 06-exercise-enrich-search-index-use-model.

Throughout the exercise, I created all the necessary resources exclusively in the South UK region. I have successfully completed multiple steps, and all my resources are currently in this region. However, at the step "Create an Azure AI Search resource", I can now not create the Azure AI Search resource because the UK South region is currently unavailable 'due to high demand'.

The exercise requires that all resources be in the same region. As a result, I cannot proceed with or complete the exercise due to the unavailability of the UK South region. Restarting the entire exercise in a different region is not feasible because of the significant progress already made.

According to the Azure status page, the UK South region is available for Azure AI Search. However, I am still unable to create the resource. I have checked my subscription quotas, refreshed the portal, and tried different browsers, but the issue persists.

Could anyone provide guidance on when the UK South region might be available again? If not, is there any way to move my existing resources to another region so I can continue and complete the exercise?

Thank you for your assistance.

Answer 1

Hi there,

Without waiting, which may not be feasible due to demand, you will need to recreate in another region. I would select a region which does allow you to deploy the AI service first, so you don't get so far down the road only to be blocked again.

Here's what I'd do. Recreate all resource in the new region, however this can be somewhat sped up by going to each resource. Under 'Automation' you should find 'Export template':

Once the template is generated, copy the template out into an editor such as VSCode, locate the 'location' parameter and amend it to your new region, for example notice the 'location' param value below for a Key Vault (example):

"resources": [
        {
            "type": "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults",
            "apiVersion": "2023-07-01",
            "name": "[parameters('vaults_kv__name')]",
            "location": "uksouth",

Of which, you can amend to your new region location (there's a table here on stackover flow which will help you out with that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44143981/is-there-an-api-to-list-all-azure-regions).

Once amended to the new region, search for 'Deploy a custom template' in the Azure Portal:

Select 'Build your own template in the editor' and then paste your new modified template here.

Then save & deploy this. It will redeploy your resources to the new region, using the existing settings from the current region. Note, this won't do data plane actions, so anything configured from an application point of view won't remain. Although there should be ways you can 'export' and 'import' those too.

Hopefully this helps save some pain for you. If this was a helpful answer that solves your problem please mark it as accepted. Any questions feel free to ping a comment and I'll do my best to assist further!

Answer 2

Hi Vladislav Sorokin,

Thanks for reaching out to us on the Microsoft Q&A forum.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you while selecting regions.

We had tried from our end and the UK South region is enabled to us as shown in below screenshots:

Due to high demand some of the regions was unavailable at that moment, the regions will enable automatically in sometime. Meanwhile please try to clear all the cache files and cookies from your browser and try accessing again the resource.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any other queries and include screenshots of the error.

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