resources disallowed by azure ???

Hello Arthur, it looks like every time you try to spin up a resource you’re running into an Azure Policy that only allows deployments in a specific set of regions. Your error message even mentions that “this policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources.” Here’s how you can unblock yourself:

1. Identify the blocking policy
   • In the Azure portal: • Go to Policy on the left menu → Assignments. • Look for an assignment named something like “Allowed locations” or “Allowed regions.”
   • With Azure CLI:

     
          az policy assignment list --scope /subscriptions/<your-subscription-id>
     
          az policy assignment show --name <assignment-name> --scope /subscriptions/<your-subscription-id>
     
     

2. Review which regions are allowed
   • In the portal, click into that policy assignment and check its Parameters tab to see the list of Allowed locations.
   • In CLI you’ll see a JSON block with a “listOfAllowedLocations” array.
3. Deploy into one of the permitted regions
   • When you run az vm create, ARM template or portal-create, pick one of the regions from that allowed list.
4. If you really need a region that isn’t on the list
   • You’ll need someone with Policy Contributor (or Owner) rights to either: a) Edit the “Allowed locations” policy assignment to add your desired region, or b) Create a policy exemption for your resource group/subscription.
   • If you don’t have those rights, contact your subscription admin or open a support request so they can grant an exception or broaden the allowed regions.

That should get you up and running. If you need more help, let us know whether you have access to the Policy blade or if you’re on a partner/enterprise-managed subscription—different subscription types sometimes have built-in location policies.

References

• Troubleshoot “Resource creation was disallowed by policy”: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-policy-requestdisallowedbypolicy
• Understand Azure Policy effects: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/concepts/effects
• Manage policy assignments in Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/governance/policy/tutorials/create-and-manage
• Azure CLI: az policy assignment show: https://learn.microsoft.com/cli/azure/policy/assignment?view=azure-cli-latest#az-policy-assignment-show

Hi Arthur,

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.

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

Thanks.

-TP