No free tier VM available in any Azure region

Question

Hello Community,

I am trying to create a VM in Azure however no free tier VM available in any Azure region I have checked all regions, could anyone please advise.

Answer 1

Hello @Avishek Kumar  

The free VM size B1s (B-series v1) is being retired in many Azure regions and is now only available in limited quantities.

Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/products-by-region/table

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How to check:

Go to Subscription > Usage + Quotas > and look for the B-series quota details.

Subscription and quota notes:

You can confirm availability by navigating to Azure Portal → Subscriptions → Usage + quotas.

• If the B-series quota isn’t available, you can request access by submitting a support ticket.
• Free Trial subscriptions can’t request quota increases, so retired or restricted SKUs like Standard_B1s can’t be enabled in those subscriptions.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/per-vm-quota-requests

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Solution:

Microsoft suggests using the newer B-series v2 (Bsv2) VM sizes, which are supported and available in more regions.

For Windows VM: try B2ATS

For Linux VM: try B2ATS, and B2PTS

All of these are free of charge (750 hours per month) if used with a P6 (64GiB) managed disk.

Source: https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/azure-services/microsoft.freeaccountvirtualmachine?tab=overview

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