1.1.1 - Azure Region
When trying to determine the exact datacenter that you would like to deploy to by name, it can be hard to get up to date information as this rapidly changes. The best way to to do this is to use a tool that actively pulls the most up to date information. Microsoft has done a great job with releasing Azure CLI - and even the AZ Powershell module, these days - on multiple platforms, and both can be installed on Windows, Linux and Mac, as well as directly accessed via the Cloud Shell.
Azure Cloud Shell
One of the great things about Azure is that both of these functions are built in to the Azure Portal - Go Microsoft! By simply clicking the Cloud Shell button just to the right of the search bar in the Azure Portal - and automatically configuring a small amount of storage on the first run - you can select either BASH (Azure CLI) or Powershell (Azure Powershell) and run either of these from within the portal! Sound like too much work? You can just navigate directly to the Cloud Shell.
Azure CLI
Initial Login
If you prefer to use the Cloud Shell, then you can start immediately with the Azure CLI
Identifying Regions
Now we can just dive straight in and get a list of all the locations available to your subscription. In this case, the bit we are interested in is the "Name" field, as that corresponds directly to the value that we require when defining an explicit location within a Blueprint.
az account list-locations -o tableThe output looks like this:
DisplayName Name RegionalDisplayName
------------------------ ------------------- -------------------------------------
East US eastus (US) East US
East US 2 eastus2 (US) East US 2
South Central US southcentralus (US) South Central US
West US 2 westus2 (US) West US 2
Australia East australiaeast (Asia Pacific) Australia East
Southeast Asia southeastasia (Asia Pacific) Southeast Asia
North Europe northeurope (Europe) North Europe
UK South uksouth (Europe) UK South
West Europe westeurope (Europe) West Europe
Central US centralus (US) Central US
North Central US northcentralus (US) North Central US
West US westus (US) West US
South Africa North southafricanorth (Africa) South Africa North
Central India centralindia (Asia Pacific) Central India
East Asia eastasia (Asia Pacific) East Asia
Japan East japaneast (Asia Pacific) Japan East
Korea Central koreacentral (Asia Pacific) Korea Central
Canada Central canadacentral (Canada) Canada Central
France Central francecentral (Europe) France Central
Germany West Central germanywestcentral (Europe) Germany West Central
Norway East norwayeast (Europe) Norway East
Switzerland North switzerlandnorth (Europe) Switzerland North
UAE North uaenorth (Middle East) UAE North
Brazil South brazilsouth (South America) Brazil South
Central US (Stage) centralusstage (US) Central US (Stage)
East US (Stage) eastusstage (US) East US (Stage)
East US 2 (Stage) eastus2stage (US) East US 2 (Stage)
North Central US (Stage) northcentralusstage (US) North Central US (Stage)
South Central US (Stage) southcentralusstage (US) South Central US (Stage)
West US (Stage) westusstage (US) West US (Stage)
West US 2 (Stage) westus2stage (US) West US 2 (Stage)
Asia asia Asia
Asia Pacific asiapacific Asia Pacific
Australia australia Australia
Brazil brazil Brazil
Canada canada Canada
Europe europe Europe
Global global Global
India india India
Japan japan Japan
United Kingdom uk United Kingdom
United States unitedstates United States
East Asia (Stage) eastasiastage (Asia Pacific) East Asia (Stage)
Southeast Asia (Stage) southeastasiastage (Asia Pacific) Southeast Asia (Stage)
East US 2 EUAP eastus2euap (US) East US 2 EUAP
West Central US westcentralus (US) West Central US
South Africa West southafricawest (Africa) South Africa West
Australia Central australiacentral (Asia Pacific) Australia Central
Australia Central 2 australiacentral2 (Asia Pacific) Australia Central 2
Australia Southeast australiasoutheast (Asia Pacific) Australia Southeast
Japan West japanwest (Asia Pacific) Japan West
Korea South koreasouth (Asia Pacific) Korea South
South India southindia (Asia Pacific) South India
West India westindia (Asia Pacific) West India
Canada East canadaeast (Canada) Canada East
France South francesouth (Europe) France South
Germany North germanynorth (Europe) Germany North
Norway West norwaywest (Europe) Norway West
Switzerland West switzerlandwest (Europe) Switzerland West
UK West ukwest (Europe) UK West
UAE Central uaecentral (Middle East) UAE Central
Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast (South America) Brazil SoutheastIt is also possible to export this data as JSON (the default). The example of the JSON output is interesting, as it contains LAT/LONG data. If you were interested in doing this, it would be possible to do some minimal processing to pull the best datacenter based on your exact location. This is outside of the scope of this article, but interesting nonetheless:
{
"displayName": "Brazil Southeast",
"id": "/subscriptions/2ce25835-4a5a-4cf0-81fc-c6d7da8db10c/locations/brazilsoutheast",
"metadata": {
"geographyGroup": "South America",
"latitude": "-22.90278",
"longitude": "-43.2075",
"pairedRegion": [
{
"id": "/subscriptions/2ce25835-4a5a-4cf0-81fc-c6d7da8db10c/locations/brazilsouth",
"name": "brazilsouth",
"subscriptionId": null
}
],
"physicalLocation": "Rio",
"regionCategory": "Other",
"regionType": "Physical"
},
"name": "brazilsoutheast",
"regionalDisplayName": "(South America) Brazil Southeast",
"subscriptionId": null
}Azure Powershell
Initial Login
As with Azure CLI, the Azure Powershell module is very simple to use.
Identifying Regions
To pull the full table of available datacenters, you can simply run the command:
Get-AzLocation | Sort-Object -Property DisplayName | Format-TableThis outputs:
Location DisplayName Providers
-------- ----------- ---------
australiacentral Australia Central {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Web...}
australiacentral2 Australia Central 2 {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Security, Microsoft.Cache, Microsoft.ClassicIn...
australiaeast Australia East {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
australiasoutheast Australia Southeast {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.ResourceHealth, Microsoft.S...
brazilsouth Brazil South {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
brazilsoutheast Brazil Southeast {Microsoft.Automation, Microsoft.ContainerRegistry, Microsoft.ContainerServi...
canadacentral Canada Central {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
canadaeast Canada East {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
centralindia Central India {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
centralus Central US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
eastasia East Asia {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
eastus East US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
eastus2 East US 2 {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
francecentral France Central {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
francesouth France South {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Logic, Microsoft.Web, Microsoft.Security...}
germanynorth Germany North {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Logic, Microsoft.Web, Microsoft.Security...}
germanywestcentral Germany West Central {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
japaneast Japan East {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
japanwest Japan West {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
koreacentral Korea Central {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
koreasouth Korea South {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
northcentralus North Central US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
northeurope North Europe {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
norwayeast Norway East {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
norwaywest Norway West {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Web, Microsoft.Security, Microsoft.Cache...}
southafricanorth South Africa North {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
southafricawest South Africa West {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Logic, Microsoft.Web, Microsoft.ManagedIdentit...
southcentralus South Central US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
southindia South India {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
southeastasia Southeast Asia {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
switzerlandnorth Switzerland North {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
switzerlandwest Switzerland West {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Security, Microsoft.Cache, Microsoft.ClassicIn...
uaecentral UAE Central {Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Logic, Microsoft.Web, Microsoft.Security...}
uaenorth UAE North {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Web...}
uksouth UK South {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
ukwest UK West {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
westcentralus West Central US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
westeurope West Europe {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
westindia West India {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
westus West US {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}
westus2 West US 2 {Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.Logic...}Now you have your region name, you can add it to the Blueprint. To do that, see here.
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