NotAvailableForSubscription error on all VM sizes and regions under Azure for Students

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NotAvailableForSubscription error on all VM sizes and regions under Azure for Students

MITHILESH GANESH SHARMA 0

Hello,

I am currently using a verified Azure for Students subscription, but I am completely unable to deploy any Virtual Machines.

Whenever I attempt to create a basic VM (such as Standard_B1s or Standard_B2s) or any basic VM for learning , the portal restricts the next steps with the following error code: NotAvailableForSubscription when I am choosing any VM size.
I am hitting this roadblock even when trying the standard East US region. I checked the Azure Portal under Policy > Assignments, but changing regions or trying different basic SKUs does not bypass this restriction.

Because this is a student account, I cannot manually request a standard quota increase through the portal. This seems to be an eligibility or capacity restriction applied at my tenant/billing-account level.

Could anyone please help with this situation? I just want to use my allocated student credits for my learning and class projects.

Thank you!

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Answer 1

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

@MITHILESH GANESH SHARMA I hope you are doing well,

NotAvailableForSubscription means that the selected VM SKU is not currently available to your subscription in that region. This is different from simply having insufficient vCPU quota. Microsoft documents that SKU restrictions can be subscription-specific and can be identified with az vm list-skus.

Since you are seeing the error for multiple VM sizes and regions, I recommend first verifying the restriction directly:

az vm list-skus --location eastus --resource-type virtualMachines --all --output table

Look at the Restrictions column. If the SKU shows NotAvailableForSubscription, the subscription is not eligible to deploy that SKU in that location. Similar case https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5916820/unable-to-create-any-virtual-machine-on-new-azure

Also check Azure Policy → Assignments → Allowed resource deployment regions, because Azure for Students subscriptions can have a restricted set of deployment regions.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5987951/quota-increase?page=1#answer-12938336

If the same NotAvailableForSubscription restriction appears for all VM SKUs in every region allowed by the subscription, this is unlikely to be a normal VM capacity issue.

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Answer 2

Hi @MITHILESH GANESH SHARMA ,

please check if these VM SKUs (free) are available for you:

For Windows VM: B2ATS

For Linux VM: B2ATS, and B2PTS

All of these are free of charge (750 hours per month) if used with a P6 (64GiB) managed disk.

Source: https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/azure-services/microsoft.freeaccountvirtualmachine?tab=overview

As the B series (version 1/v1) is being retired in a lot of Azure regions the B2ATS might be the preferred VM SKU.

More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/general-purpose/bsv2-series?tabs=sizebasic#sizes-in-series

(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards

Andreas Baumgarten