All vCPU quotas stuck at 10, can't get quota increases

Question

I have a personal Azure account, Pay-as-you-go.

I can't get any vCPU quotas increased above 10, for any Azure region.

Which makes experimenting with compute clusters (e.g., Databricks, Spark, etc.) impossible.

I opened a support ticket and they responded:

We would like to inform you that your request has been reviewed. 
However, we cannot proceed with the process due to the following reason.
Please verify if this is a personal request as it seems that the company name 
registered in CST is named after a person’s name. If this is indeed a personal 
request, please be advised that we do not accept individual or personal request, 
we only accept requests for business/organization accounts. 

Are there any regions where I can get more vCPU cores quota as a hobbyist?
I'm willing to pay!

Answer 1

Hi Jonathan,

Azure imposes strict vCPU quotas on Pay-As-You-Go personal accounts. For personal or individual Pay-As-You-Go accounts, Microsoft often enforces strict limits that cannot be increased, regardless of the region or request.

Microsoft support explicitly states that the only reliable way to access higher vCPU quotas is to register your Azure subscription under a business or organizational identity.

Quotas are region-specific, you must request for increase per region where you want to deploy resources. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits#how-to-manage-limits

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-resource-quota?tabs=azure-cli

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Answer 2

Hi Jonathan •

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.

Regarding your question, please visit the link below:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-sku-not-available?tabs=azure-cli

Also you can try the following shell script, and run froma WSL Linux session or Putty for example.

Using Bash:

for region in $(az account list-locations --query "[].name" -o tsv); do
    echo "Checking region: $region"
    az vm list-skus --location $region --query "[?name=='Standard_D4s_v5']" -o table
done

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Thank You.

Lisboa