Azure for Students subscription won't let me create virtual machine in India

Hi Dhruv,

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

Look for an assignment similar to "Allowed locations", or something with location as part of the name. Click on this assignment, and then examine the Parameter value for list of regions.

These are the regions you are allowed to deploy resources to. Please try to create VM in one of these regions and reply back here with result.

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

Thanks.

-TP

Hi, this isn’t a quota or VM-size problem, the Azure for Students offer applies a subscription-level allowlist of regions, and India isn’t in your allowed set, so ARM blocks every regional resource (VM, VNet, NSG, NIC) with RequestDisallowedByAzure during validation; nothing you change in the VM wizard will override it. Quick fixes: pick an allowed region (try common student regions like East US, West Europe, North Europe, Southeast Asia, etc.) and the deployment will succeed; if you must deploy in India, you’ll need a different offer, either upgrade the subscription (e.g., to Pay-As-You-Go / Students-Upgrade) or ask Support to enable additional regions for your subscription (sometimes declined for student offers). To proceed now: go back to Basics - Region, choose one of the permitted regions, complete creation; later, if India is a hard requirement, create a new PAYG subscription (or convert this one) and deploy there.