How to access Azure Maps in Australia

Question

I am trying to setup Azure Maps on my subscription in Australia East region.

When I attempt to create the Azure Maps Resource in Azure, I get the following error.

{"code":"LocationNotAvailableForResourceType","message":"The provided location 'australiaeast' is not available for resource type 'Microsoft.Maps/accounts'. List of available regions for the resource type is 'westcentralus,global,westus2,eastus,westeurope,northeurope'."}

Is Azure Maps permitted in Australia? Or is it limited only to these specific Azure regions?

According to this Microsoft PDF it is "Non Regional"
https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-product-and-services/azure/documents/pxr/024-Azure-product-availability-Non-Regional-1.pdf

but that doesn't seem to be the case for me.

Cheers

Answer 1

Azure Maps is a global load balanced service and not one you deploy to a specific region. Create the resource in any of the regions westcentralus, global, westus2, eastus, westeurope, northeurope. Note that you aren't deploying a copy of Azure Maps into your subscription / specific area/region.

When someone uses your app and a request is made to Azure Maps, the request is routed to the nearest Azure endpoint to the user. So, you can set it up in eastus but when you use it, the requests will flow through an Azure datacenter in Australia. But is someone in the UK uses your app, their request will likely flow through the Azure data center in Dublin Ireland.