Deploy my Azure, Region not avaiable

Question

Hello. I need to deploy / create my Azure OpenIA Servire, but I am in Portugal and region option it is not by country.

Portugal is Southwestern and there is no option there, only West Europe and nearest: Spain.

Can anyone help me? Which one is better?

Best regards, IS

Answer 1

Hi Irina Sopas,

I understand that your issue is you're in Portugal and trying to deploy Azure OpenAI — but you're not sure which region to pick, since there’s no direct “Portugal” option.

Recommendation:

Choose "West Europe" for deploying your Azure OpenAI resource from Portugal.

It is optimized for Western Europe and is widely used, reliable, and has full Azure OpenAI support.

— it is:

·       One of the closest Azure regions to Portugal

·       A primary region with broad support for Azure OpenAI

·       Generally, provides low latency and high availability for Portugal

Alternatively, France Central (Paris) or Spain Central (Madrid) are also geographically close, but not all Azure services, especially Azure OpenAI, are available in those regions.

Please refer to the below document for service region availability

Service region availability: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/overview#availability-and-regions

Hope this helps. Do let me know if you any further queries.

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