VM Creation - SkuNotAvailable when creating VM in region

In the CLI, I tried creating a VM in ‘West US’ in my subscription but kept on getting a ResourceDeploymentFailure with code SkuNotAvailable.

At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details. {
  "status": "Failed",
  "error": {
    "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure",
    "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.",
    "details": [
      {
        "code": "DeploymentFailed",
        "message": "At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details.",
        "details": [
          {
            "code": "Conflict",
            "message": "{\r\n  \"error\": {\r\n    \"code\": \"SkuNotAvailable\",\r\n    \"message\": \"The requested tier for resource '/subscriptions/.../resourceGroups/commute-dev/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/commutedev1' is currently not available in location 'westus' for subscription '...'. Please try another tier or deploy to a different location.\"\r\n  }\r\n}"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

I tried many VM sizes and kept getting the same result.

I then tried in the portal and get the error message “Your subscription doesn’t support virtual machine creation in West US.”

The CLI doesn’t show a list of supported regions and there doesn’t appear to be a way to get this.

Can we use the same logic/API calls as the portal?

[yugangw-msft]

@lmazuel , correct

[yugangw-msft]

This issue has been largely mitigated with enhanced az vm list-skus, particularly in the help

    List all available vm sizes in the East US2 region which support availability zone with name
    like "standard_ds1...".
        az vm list-skus -l eastus2 --zone --size standard_ds1

And yes, once you find the available the sizes, you can use this size for vm/vmss create. We have talked to compute team, and there are nothing else planned on this area. Hence i am closing this.