Upgraded my Azure subscription from trial to pay-as-you-go but still can't create compute

Question

I'm new to Azure/Cloud computing and am finding some things confusing.

Today I upgraded my free trial, which gives me $200 for 30 days, to type Basic (no technical support). I had to provide my cc for that. Not sure what that really does, maybe I still have the free trial (I know I still have the $200 credits).

I believed that doing that would allow me to create a Databricks workspace where I could create a Compute resource with policy Unrestricted (say 1 driver and 1 worker), but it still says that my estimated quota of cores is 4 (so 1 driver machine at most, no workers). I can create a cluster only using policy Personal Compute, but not with the Unrestricted, see below.

This account may not have enough CPU cores to satisfy this request

Estimated available: 0, requested: 8

It seems there are a few many concepts, which can be confusing. A subscription that needs to be non-free (pay-as-you-go, if you want to, say, create a cluster with 1 driver and 1 worker), a resource group (tied to the non-free subscription) and a Databricks workspace (tied to the resource group).

It seems it's the policy that matters. I was trying to create one cluster that would let me pick 1 driver and 1 worker but even after going pay-as-you-go it wouldn't let me. If I pick the personal compute then it lets me create a cluster with one driver and no workers (well, maybe it will still work for my training, hopefully).

PS-good grief, it still doesn't let me create clusters in any configuration (one driver only, one driver and one worker). I picked region EAST-US, bc previously South Brazil was giving me availability error. Can somebody help?

Azure Quota Exceeded Exception: The VM size you are specifying is not available. [details] QuotaExceeded: Operation could not be completed as it results in exceeding approved standardDDSv5Family Cores quota. Additional details - Deployment Model: Resource Manager, Location: eastus, Current Limit: 0, Current Usage: 0, Additional Required: 4, (Minimum) New Limit Required: 4. Setup Alerts when Quota reaches threshold. Learn more at https://aka.ms/quotamonitoringalerting . Submit a request for Quota increase at https://aka.ms/ProdportalCRP/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Capacity/UsageAndQuota.ReactView/Parameters/%7B%22subscriptionId%22:%22640fca4c-80a3-4ed7-bebe-33b72df4c06c%22,%22command%22:%22openQuotaApprovalBlade%22,%22quotas%22:[%7B%22location%22:%22eastus%22,%22providerId%22:%22Microsoft.Compute%22,%22resourceName%22:%22standardDDSv5Family%22,%22quotaRequest%22:%7B%22properties%22:%7B%22limit%22:4

Answer 1

Hello JR JR,

Thanks for your question.

As a community member, I will post your feedback in the comment about the verification system to the team.

Upgrading to a pay-as-you-go subscription removes the spending limit associated with a free trial and allows you to be billed for resource usage, it does not automatically increase the default quotas for vCPU cores. You need to request a Quota Increase. To resolve:

• Go to Subscriptions and select your subscription > Under Settings, click on Usage + quotas.
• Filter by "Microsoft.Compute" as the provider and select the "eastus" region. and check the quota for the vm family
• Click on Request Increase.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/regional-quota-requests

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Regards,

Abiola