Azure for Students subscription cannot deploy any Azure resources due to RequestDisallowedByAzure policy

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Azure for Students subscription cannot deploy any Azure resources due to RequestDisallowedByAzure policy

Pranesh Sukumar 40

Hello Microsoft Team,

I am using an Azure for Students subscription.

Subscription Information

• Subscription Name: Azure for Students

• Subscription Status: Active

• My Role: Owner

I am unable to deploy Microsoft AI Foundry resources. Every deployment fails with the following error:

RequestDisallowedByAzure

"This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources. The objective of this policy is to ensure that your subscription has full access to Azure services with optimal performance. Should you need additional or different regions, contact support."

To troubleshoot the issue, I performed the following checks:

• Microsoft.MachineLearningServices is registered.

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices is registered.

• Subscription is Active.

• I am the Owner of the subscription.

• I tried multiple supported regions including:

East US
East US 2
West US 2
Central India
South India
Southeast Asia
North Europe

• I created multiple new resource groups.

• I used different resource names.

• The "Allowed resource deployment regions" Azure Policy shows as Compliant.

• No custom policy assignments are visible.

To verify whether the issue was specific to AI Foundry, I also attempted to deploy a standard Azure Storage Account. The Storage Account deployment also failed due to the same region policy restriction.

Based on these tests, it appears that my Azure for Students subscription is unable to deploy resources because of a Microsoft-managed policy restriction.

Could a Microsoft engineer please verify whether my subscription has an incorrect policy assignment or region restriction? If so, could you advise how it can be resolved?

Thank you.

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TP 162K 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):

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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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Answer 1

RequestDisallowedByAzure in an Azure for Students subscription indicates a Microsoft-managed policy is restricting which regions the subscription can use for deployment. This is consistent with Azure for Students behavior: allowed regions are limited, can vary per subscription, and deployments fail when the selected region is not in that allowed list.

The checks already completed rule out common causes such as provider registration, resource naming, and resource-type-specific issues. Since a Storage Account also fails, the problem is not specific to AI Foundry.

Use this verification path:

In the Azure portal, open Policy.
Go to Assignments.
Look for a policy named Allowed locations or Allowed resource deployment regions.
Open the assignment and inspect the Parameters value.
Deploy only to the regions listed there.

Important points:

A policy can block deployment even when the subscription is active and the account has the Owner role.
Microsoft cannot bypass or disable policies in the environment from the deployment flow itself.
If the required region is not listed in the policy parameters, the documented path is to contact Microsoft support for remediation or clarification.

If the assignment appears compliant but deployments still fail in every tested region, that still points to an enforced region restriction on the subscription rather than an AI Foundry configuration issue. The supported next step is a support request to have the subscription’s allowed-region policy reviewed.