Azure for Students - Cosmos DB region restriction, only US regions available in portal

Hello,

I am a university student using an Azure for Students subscription and I am unable to create a Cosmos DB account in any usable region. I would appreciate any help resolving this.

Problem 1 — Azure Portal

When creating a Cosmos DB account through the portal, the Location dropdown only shows two options:

• (US) East US 2 EUAP
• (US) Central US EUAP

When I select East US 2 EUAP and attempt to create, I receive the following error:

{

  "code": "LocationNotAvailableForResourceType",

  "message": "The provided location 'eastus2euap' is not available for resource type 'Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts'. List of available regions for the resource type is 'westcentralus,northcentralus,centralus,brazilsouth,canadacentral,westus2,eastus2,francecentral,japaneast,southeastasia,centralindia,southafricanorth,switzerlandnorth,uaenorth,ukwest,northeurope,westeurope,norwayeast,koreacentral,australiaeast,canadaeast,eastasia,germanywestcentral,uksouth,...'"

}

The error confirms these regions ARE available for the resource type — but they are not appearing in the portal dropdown for my subscription.

Problem 2 — Azure CLI

I attempted to bypass the portal restriction using the Azure CLI, trying multiple regions including UK South, UK West, North Europe, West Europe, and Sweden Central. Every attempt returns the same error:

(RequestDisallowedByAzure) Resource 'motorlog-db' was disallowed by Azure: 

This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription 

can deploy resources.

Code: RequestDisallowedByAzure

What I have tried

• Creating via portal — only EUAP regions shown
• Creating via CLI across 5+ European and UK regions — all blocked
• Checked az account list-locations — UK South, North Europe, West Europe all appear in the list

Subscription details

• Type: Azure for Students
• Resource group region: UK South (created successfully)
• Target resource: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Serverless mode
• Desired region: UK South or any EEA region (GDPR compliance requirement)

Is there a way to unlock standard regions for Cosmos DB on an Azure for Students subscription? The EUAP regions are experimental and not suitable for a real application, and I cannot upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go as a student.

Thank you