Microsoft Azure – Creation of ‘netAppAccounts’ has been restricted in this region

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During my preparation for the AZ-140 (Azure Virtual Desktop) certification I had problems creating a NetApp Files Account. When creating the NetApp account, I received the following error message:

Creation of ‘netAppAccounts’ has been restricted in this region

The only prerequisite before creating a NetApp Account is to register the Azure Provider “Microsoft.NetApp”. This was already done as described in the Microsoft Learn article before creating the NetApp account.

You can see that the ‘Microsoft.NetApp’ resource provider was registered successfully. I thought: Well it is the cloud maybe give it some time? But even after 24 hours the creation of the NetApp Account was still not possible. I reached out on Twitter and got feedback from Andreas Fleischmann with the missing hint.

I am using a MSDN Visual Studio Enterprise subscription in my tenant. It seems that Azure NetApp Files is restricted for those subscriptions. You need to contact the Azure Support and request a quota for the NetApp service.

After the Microsoft Support Engineer completed the quota request the creation of the NetApp account was possible