Can I use India as the location to access free tier services or which regions are available to use free tier for app service and Azure SQL database

Question

Can I use India as the location to access free tier services or which regions are available to use free tier for app service and Azure SQL database

Answer 1

Hi,

Yes you can use it as far as it is part of the free tier service under $200 credit limit create-free-services for product availability I will suggest you to filter this page and select the region. I have checked and SQL DB is available across India.

products-by-region

Hope this helps.
JS

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Answer 2

About Azure SQL Database, it allows you to create one free Azure SQL Server database per region, it reverts to Standard after 365 days. That is what I know ever since you use PowerShell to create it.

New-AzureRmSqlDatabase -DatabaseName $DatabaseName  -ServerName $sqlServer.ServerName   
-ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup.ResourceGroupName -Edition 'Free'   
-RequestedServiceObjectiveName 'Free'  

Not all regions support it also. This works only for the following regions, for now:

 Location           DisplayName  
 --------           -------------------  
 australiaeast      Australia East  
 australiasoutheast Australia Southeast  
 centralindia       Central India  
 eastasia           East Asia  
 francecentral      France Central  
 japaneast          Japan East  
 japanwest          Japan West  
 koreacentral       Korea Central  
 koreasouth         Korea South  
 northcentralus     North Central US  
 northeurope        North Europe  
 southeastasia      Southeast Asia  
 southindia         South India  
 uksouth            UK South  
 ukwest             UK West  
 westcentralus      West Central US  
 westeurope         West Europe  
 westindia          West India  
 westus2            West US 2  

South India and West India regions allow to create free databases.