Region not available

Question

Hi @all ,
as im living and working in Germany I want my azure region to be central-get. But I can't choose that option when setting up a VM in my azure portal. Nearest I can get is Western Europe Central France and Northern Europe. Why is that and what to to about that.

Thanks for every kind of Help

Answer 1

Hi @Lemur , I was able to check internally and found that there are certain restrictions on creating VMs in Germany Central currently as well as in few other regions. The options you are seeing in Azure Portal for your Subscription while creating the VMs, are the only available ones right now.

I would recommend creating a VM in another region that is closest to you to mitigate this for the time being. As the capacity issue in Germany Central is resolved, you would be able to see that option.

Why are you seeing this capacity issue?
Ensuring capacity for our customers is a top priority for Microsoft and we are working around the clock to deliver on this. The increasing demand for Azure services is evidence of the popularity of Azure, and emphasizes the need to scale up our infrastructure even more rapidly. With that in mind, we are expediting expansions and are improving our resource deployment process to respond to this strong customer demand. In fact, we are adding a significant amount of compute infrastructure monthly. We have identified several improvements on how we load-balance under a high resource usage situation, and how to trigger the timely deployment of needed resources. Furthermore, we are increasing our capacity significantly – and will continue to plan for strong customer demand across all of our regions. This September 2021 blog post covers improvements towards delivering a resilient cloud supply chain.

Before implementing any restrictions on customers, we first pull every lever available to expedite new capacity, and to preserve existing capacity – this includes shaping internal customers to non-constrained regions whenever possible.

If these steps are not sufficient to avoid a capacity shortfall, we then implement “offer restrictions” which prevent newly-created subscriptions from being able to deploy to the constrained region.

Should you be experiencing an allocation failure, there are many ways to troubleshoot. We also work closely with our impacted customers to offer alternate solutions, should a capacity constraint affect their deployment.

Hope this helps.

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