The provided location 'eastus2' is not available for resource type 'Microsoft.Communication/CommunicationServices'

Question

I want to setup Azure Communication Services using CLI. Therefore, using az communication create command with the --data-location as global. It is giving me following error

(LocationNotAvailableForResourceType) The provided location 'eastus2' is not available for resource type 'Microsoft.Communication/CommunicationServices'. List of available regions for the resource type is 'global'.

Code: LocationNotAvailableForResourceType

Message: The provided location 'eastus2' is not available for resource type 'Microsoft.Communication/CommunicationServices'. List of available regions for the resource type is 'global'.

My resource is in location US East 2.

How can I solve this error?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is difference between Data Location and Location. Please refer this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/communication?view=azure-cli-latest#az-communication-create for more details

For the list of data locations, refer this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/privacy#data-residency

Please pass the right values for Data Location and Location parameters.

Accept this answer if it solves your problem.

Answer 2

@Ashish Bhagchandani Thanks for reaching here! As its mentioned here- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/privacy#data-residency

When creating an Azure Communication Services resource, you specify a geography (not an Azure data center). All chat messages, and resource data stored by Communication Services at rest are retained in that geography, in a data center selected internally by Communication Services. Data may transit or be processed in other geographies. These global endpoints are necessary to provide a high-performance, low-latency experience to end-users no matter their location- The list of geographies you can choose from includes:

• Africa
• Asia Pacific
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Europe
• France
• Germany
• India
• Japan
• Korea
• Norway
• Switzerland
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States

For creating Azure communication services using CLI use below command-

az communication create --name "<acsResourceName>" --location "Global" --data-location "United States" --resource-group "<resourceGroup>"

Hope this helps.

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