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Microsoft Foundry feature availability across cloud regions

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This document refers to the Microsoft Foundry (classic) portal.

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This document refers to the Microsoft Foundry (new) portal.

Microsoft Foundry brings together various Azure AI capabilities that were previously only available as standalone Azure services. While we strive to make all features available in all regions where Microsoft Foundry is supported at the same time, feature availability might vary by region. In this article, you learn what Foundry features are available across cloud regions.

Foundry projects

Foundry is currently available in the following Azure regions.

Microsoft Foundry brings together various Azure AI capabilities that were previously only available as standalone Azure services. While we strive to make all features available in all regions where Foundry is supported at the same time, feature availability might vary by region. In this article, you learn what Foundry features are available across cloud regions.

Foundry projects

Foundry is currently available in the following Azure regions. You can create either a Foundry project or hub-based project in Foundry in these regions.

  • Australia East
  • Brazil South
  • Canada Central
  • Canada East
  • Central India
  • East Asia
  • East US
  • East US 2
  • France Central
  • Germany West Central
  • Italy North
  • Japan East
  • Korea Central
  • North Central US
  • North Europe
  • Norway East
  • Quatar Central
  • South Africa North
  • South Central US
  • South India
  • Southeast Asia
  • Spain Central
  • Sweden Central
  • Switzerland North
  • UAE North
  • UK South
  • West Europe
  • West US
  • West US 3
  • US Gov Virginia
  • US Gov Arizona
  • Australia East
  • Brazil South
  • Canada Central
  • Canada East
  • Central India
  • East Asia
  • East US
  • East US 2
  • France Central
  • Germany West Central
  • Italy North
  • Japan East
  • Korea Central
  • North Central US
  • North Europe
  • Norway East
  • Quatar Central
  • South Africa North
  • South Central US
  • South India
  • Southeast Asia
  • Spain Central
  • Sweden Central
  • Switzerland North
  • UAE North
  • UK South
  • West Europe
  • West US
  • West US 3

Foundry features

For maximum feature availability, consider East US 2, Sweden Central, or West US 2 as your primary regions, as they offer the most comprehensive coverage across features.

Use the following table to investigate regional availability for specific features you plan to use.

Service Description Link
Azure OpenAI Note that some models might not be available within the Foundry model catalog. Azure OpenAI quotas and limits.
Speech capabilities Azure Speech in Foundry Tools capabilities including custom neural voice vary in regional availability due to underlying hardware availability. Speech service supported regions
Azure AI Content Safety To use the Content Safety APIs, create your Azure AI Content Safety resource in a supported region. What is Azure AI Content Safety?.
Foundry Agent Service Agent Service supports the same models as the chat completions API in Azure OpenAI. Agent Service region availability.
Service Description Link
Azure OpenAI Note that some models might not be available within the model catalog. Azure OpenAI quotas and limits.
Speech capabilities Azure Speech capabilities including custom neural voice vary in regional availability due to underlying hardware availability. Speech service supported regions.
Serverless deployment Some models in the model catalog can be deployed as serverless deployments. Region availability for models in serverless deployment.
Azure AI Content Safety To use the Content Safety APIs, create your Azure AI Content Safety resource in a supported region. What is Azure AI Content Safety?.
Agent Service Agent Service supports the same models as the chat completions API in Azure OpenAI. Agent Service region availability.

Foundry in sovereign clouds

Azure Government (United States)

Available to US government entities and their partners only. For more information, see Azure Government documentation and Compare Azure Government and global Azure.

  • Foundry portal URL:
  • Regions:
    • US Gov Arizona
    • US Gov Virginia
  • Available pricing tiers:
  • Supported features:
    • Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
    • Foundry Tools
      • Speech
      • Speech playground (preview)
      • Language playground (preview)
      • Language + Translator
      • Vision + Document
      • Content Safety
    • Model catalog. For the list of supported models, see Machine learning cloud parity.
    • Templates (preview)
    • Prompt flow
    • Tracing (preview)
    • Guardrails & controls
      • Content filters
      • Profanity blocklist (preview)
    • Management center
  • Unsupported features in Azure Government regions:
    • Serverless endpoints 
    • Content Understanding
    • Agents playground
    • Images playground
    • Real-time audio playground
    • Healthcare playground
    • Fine-tuning
    • Azure AI Agents
    • Batch jobs
    • Azure OpenAI Evaluation
    • Deploy Web App
    • VS Code Extension

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