Azure for Students - RequestDisallowedByAzure Policy Error on all Regions

Question

I am a student (Azure for Students subscription) trying to deploy a basic VM for a research project. I keep encountering the following error code: RequestDisallowedByAzure.

What I have already tried:

Deploying in multiple regions (East US, East US 2, North Europe, West Europe).

Using standard Microsoft Images (Windows Server 2019/2022 Datacenter).

Disabling all Availability Zones and Redundancy options.

Selecting B-series (B1s/B2s) which are usually allowed for students.

Despite these attempts, every deployment is blocked by a policy. It seems there is a "Resource Disallowed" policy at the subscription level that is preventing me from using my $100 credits.

Answer 1

Hello Idan Reshef,

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.

References:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-policy-requestdisallowedbypolicy?tabs=azure-cli
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/services/error-request-disallowed-by-policy

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Credits: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5868834/azure-student-subscription-region-and-resource-dep

Answer 2

The error RequestDisallowedByPolicy means an Azure Policy assigned to the subscription is blocking creation of the VM resource type.

In this scenario:

• The deployments fail in all tested regions and with standard images and small B-series SKUs.
• The error explicitly indicates a resource disallowed by policy at subscription level.
• Azure for Students subscriptions can also be subject to organizational policies (for example, “Allowed resource types” or “Not allowed resource types”) that deny certain resources.

To proceed, follow these steps:

1. Identify the blocking policy
   1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
   2. In the top search bar, type Policy and open it.
   3. Select Assignments.
   4. Look for assignments such as:
      • “Allowed resource types” (or similar), or
      • “Not allowed resource types”, or
      • An initiative like “Deny generally unwanted Resource Types” or “GM Resource Standards”.
   5. Open the relevant assignment and review the Policy definition and Parameters to confirm that the VM resource types (Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines and related resources) are not allowed.
2. Request a policy change (if managed by an organization)
   • If the subscription is under an organization (school, university, or other tenant admin), the policy is controlled by that admin.
   • Contact the system administrator or Azure admin for the tenant and request that they:
     • Add the required resource types to the “Allowed resource types” policy, or
     • Remove/adjust the “Not allowed resource types” policy that blocks Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines.
   • The admin can edit the policy assignment parameters to allow the specific resource types needed for the VM deployment.
3. Retry deployment after policy update
   • Once the policy assignment is updated and saved, redeploy the VM with the same configuration.
4. If the policy cannot be changed
   • If the admin or program owner confirms that VMs are intentionally blocked for that subscription, then VM creation is not permitted under that Azure for Students subscription and the credits can only be used for allowed services.

If instead the error message is about region ineligibility (for example, “The selected region is currently not accepting new customers”), then the region itself is restricted and a different region must be used. However, in this case the context indicates a policy-based block rather than a region-ineligible error.

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