Speaking of Azure regions and locations, very often we think of the commercial Azure cloud, since there is Azure Government, which basically represents a completely isolated Azure cloud dedicated to the US government only. For the rest of us being plebs, we have currently 74 regions available across the globe. Let’s find out the list of all available regions to our account/subscription and tenants.
Prerequisites
- Azure subscription
az cli
Step 1. Open Terminal and sign in with Azure.
az login
Step 2. List all available locations in Azure.
az account list-locations -o table
Output:
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
West US 3 westus3 (US) West US 3
Australia East australiaeast (Asia Pacific) Australia East
...
Powershell
Step 1. Open PowerShell and sign in to Azure.
Connect-AzAccount
Step 2. List all available locations in Azure.
Get-AzLocation | select DisplayName, Location
Output:
DisplayName Location
----------- --------
East Asia eastasia
Southeast Asia southeastasia
Central US centralus
East US eastus
East US 2 eastus2
West US westus
Conclusion
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