Workspace Validation Failed on Azure Student Subscription

Question

I am using a Student Azure subscription and wanted to practice on Azure Databricks for a course i am learning on Udemy.
When trying to create a workspace as per the video, I keep getting this same error despite trying different regions like East US (which was set by default), Australia Central (which my subscription shows most of the services are) and South India (since i am from India). None of these servers are working and its giving the same error. Can anyone help me to figure this out?

Answer 1

Hi Ishan Patel,
This is expected with Azure for Students. Your deployment is failing with (Code: RequestDisallowedByAzure) because a subscription policy restricts which Azure regions you’re allowed to deploy into. The fix is to deploy your Azure Databricks workspace only in the regions listed in your policy and supported by Azure Databricks.

Steps to Follow

1. Open Azure Policy → Authoring → Assignments and find “Allowed resource deployment regions” (or similar “Allowed locations” policy). Check the Allowed locations parameter — that list is the only set of regions your Student subscription can deploy to.
2. Create the Databricks workspace in one of those allowed regions that is also in the Azure Databricks supported regions list.
   If there is no overlap (none of your allowed regions support Databricks), you won’t be able to create a Databricks workspace on the Student offer — the typical workaround is moving to Pay‑As‑You‑Go (or a non‑restricted subscription).

Microsoft references

• Azure Databricks supported regions [Azure Data...soft Learn | Learn.Microsoft.com]
• Azure for Students region restriction (RequestDisallowedByAzure)

Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.

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Answer 2

Hi,

Azure for Students restricts which regions you can deploy resources to. Typically you are restricted to five different regions, and these vary for each person.

Please navigate to Azure Policy -- Authoring -- Assignments using link below:

https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_Azure_Policy/PolicyMenuBlade/~/Assignments

Click on assignment named Allowed resource deployment regions

Examine Allowed locations Parameter value for list of regions, similar to below (regions in screenshot are different than yours):

The regions shown in your Parameter value are the ones you are allowed to deploy resources to. Please try to create resources in one of these regions and let me know the results.

Additionally, Azure Databricks is only supported in certain regions. Please click below link for list:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/resources/supported-regions#regions-azure

The regions allowed by your Azure for Students subscription needs to overlap with the Azure Databricks supported regions. If the two do not overlap you will not be able to create workspace.

Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

Thanks.

-TP