Azure for Students cannot create Microsoft Foundry resource - RequestDisallowedByAzure for all regions

Hosna Ara Begum 20 Reputation points

I am participating in the Microsoft Agents League Hackathon, Reasoning Agents track.

I am using my university organisational account:

******@utas.edu.au

Subscription:

Azure for Students

I can access Microsoft Foundry at ai.azure.com and also the Microsoft Foundry page in Azure Portal. However, when I try to create a Foundry resource, validation fails with:

RequestDisallowedByAzure

The error says:

“This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources.”

I tried creating the resource through both:

  1. ai.azure.com
  2. portal.azure.com → Microsoft Foundry → Create a Foundry resource

Regions tried include:

East US, East US 2, Australia East, West US, West US 3, Sweden Central, France Central, and UK South.

All attempts failed with the same policy/region restriction.

Could someone please confirm:

  1. Is Microsoft Foundry supported under Azure for Students?
  2. How can I find the allowed regions for my Azure for Students subscription?
  3. Is there any workaround for hackathon participants who need Microsoft Foundry access?
  4. Should I use a different subscription type for Foundry resource creation?

This is blocking my hackathon project development. I can provide screenshots and full error details if needed.

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TP 157.5K Reputation points • Volunteer Moderator

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

👁 User's image

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

👁 User's image

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.

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

Thanks.

-TP

  1. TP 157.5K Reputation points • Volunteer Moderator

    @Hosna Ara Begum If you are unable to create Foundry resource in one of your five allowed regions then unfortunately you may need to create separate Pay-As-You-Go subscription and use that instead.

  2. Hosna Ara Begum 20 Reputation points

    Thank you so much . I was stuck for a long time here.

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  1. SRILAKSHMI C 19,110 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

    Hello @Hosna Ara Begum

    Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, and sorry to hear this is blocking your hackathon progress.

    The error you are seeing:

    RequestDisallowedByAzure “This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources.”

    typically indicates a subscription-level policy restriction, rather than a Microsoft Foundry service issue or a regional outage.

    Since you have already tested multiple regions (East US, East US 2, Australia East, West US, West US 3, Sweden Central, France Central, UK South) and all fail with the same message, this strongly suggests the restriction is being enforced at the Azure subscription/offer policy layer.

    1. Is Microsoft Foundry supported under Azure for Students?

    Based on the currently available documentation, there is no explicit confirmation that Microsoft Foundry resource creation is universally supported across all Azure for Students subscriptions.

    However, the behavior you are seeing is consistent with:

    Subscription-level deployment restrictions

    Azure Policy enforcing allowed regions per subscription

    So in practice:

    Some Azure for Students subscriptions may work with Foundry

    Others may be restricted depending on policy assignments

    This means Foundry access is not guaranteed uniformly across all student subscriptions.

    2. How to find allowed regions for Azure for Students

    Azure does not currently provide a direct “allowed regions list” for Azure for Students subscriptions.

    From the available guidance, you can:

    In Azure AI Foundry (ai.azure.com):

    Go to Models + endpoints

    Select Deploy model

    Check:

    Region dropdown

     Deployment type (Standard / Global Standard / PTU)

    This helps confirm what the Foundry service supports.

    However, your case shows that even if regions appear available in the UI, Azure Policy at the subscription level can still block deployments, which explains the consistent failure across all regions.

    If you have access:

    • Azure Portal → Subscription → Policy Assignments
    • Look for policies restricting allowed locations

    3. Workarounds for hackathon participants

    Based on standard Azure behavior for subscription-restricted scenarios, the practical options are:

    A. Use a shared Foundry environment

    If your instructor or team has a working subscription:

    • Create the Azure AI Foundry / AI Hub resource once
    • Deploy it in a supported subscription/region
    • Add students as Contributors to the Resource Group or project
    • Students can then build and test agents without needing to create their own Foundry resource

    B. Use an eligible subscription

    If your Azure for Students subscription is restricted:

    • A Pay-As-You-Go subscription or institutional subscription typically has broader region/service access
    • This is often required when specific regions or services are blocked at the student-offer level

    4) Should you switch subscription type?

    From the documentation perspective:

    Azure AI service access and resource creation are controlled at the subscription level

    Eligibility and permissions are tied to the subscription ID

    So if Azure for Students restrictions are preventing Foundry deployment, then:

    Using another subscription type (such as Pay-As-You-Go or institutional subscription) is the most reliable path forward

    However, the documentation does not explicitly list which subscription types are supported or excluded for Foundry, so this is based on observed Azure subscription governance behavior.

    I Hope this helps. Do let me know if you have any further queries.

    If this answers your query, please do click Accept Answer and Yes for was this answer helpful.

    Thank you!

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  2. AI answer

    1. The provided information does not explicitly state whether Microsoft Foundry is supported or unsupported on Azure for Students subscriptions. The error message shown, however, is clearly driven by a policy that restricts which regions and/or resource types can be used.
    2. The error text:

    “This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources.”

    indicates that a policy is blocking deployment based on region eligibility. For region-related policy blocks, the documented guidance is:

    • Either choose an alternative region that is allowed for the subscription.
    • Or, if there is a business requirement and other subscriptions in the tenant already use that region, submit a support request to Microsoft to remediate the region access policy.

    The documented remediation path is:

    1. Sign in to the Azure portal using the support request deep link.
    2. In How can we help you?, enter region access, then select Go.
    3. Under Which service are you having an issue with?, select Service and subscription limits (quotas), then Next.
    4. Select Create a support request.
    5. Choose the subscription, and in Quota type, select the appropriate “Unable to access <region> region” option, then continue the support flow.

    This is the only supported way in the documentation to change region-access policy; there is no self-service way to list or override the allowed regions per subscription beyond selecting a different region or opening a support case.

    1. For hackathon participants, the same constraints apply: if the subscription is governed by a region access policy, the options are to:
    • Use a region that is allowed by the policy (if any support Foundry), or
    • Work with support to request region access remediation for the needed region(s), following the documented “region access” support flow.

    No hackathon-specific bypass or workaround is documented.

    1. If the Azure for Students subscription is constrained by a region access policy that cannot be changed, then using a different subscription type that is not subject to that policy (or that can be remediated via support as above) is the documented path to deploy resources in the required regions.

    Before switching subscriptions, it is also recommended to:

    • Verify Foundry feature and region support for the intended workload:
      1. Pick a candidate project region from the Foundry projects list.
      2. Verify feature-specific support in the Foundry features list.
      3. In the Foundry portal, go to Operate → Quota, enable Show all, and confirm the model/region combination is available.
      4. Confirm the service availability in the Azure global infrastructure products-by-region list.

    If all of those checks pass but the subscription is still blocked by policy, then the issue is subscription policy/eligibility rather than Foundry regional support itself.

    References:

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