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

Hosna Ara Begum 20 Reputation points
2026-06-11T12:13:26.06+00:00

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 157.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2026-06-11T12:18:39.7966667+00:00

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

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

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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

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    2026-06-11T12:13:42.4966667+00:00
    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.

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