Archive for July, 2020
When using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), it is often necessary to explicitly state which region you want to perform an operation in. For example, when creating a resource group
az group create --name <rg_name> --location <location>
Where you replace <location>
with the region where you want to create the resource group. You may have a region in mind (South Central US perhaps) or you may be wondering which regions are available. Either way, it is helpful to see the list of all possible values for <location>
in commands like the one above.
The way to do this is with the following command
az account list-locations
By default, the output is in JSON format:
[
{
"displayName": "East Asia",
"id": "/subscriptions/1ce68363-bb47-4365-b243-7451a25611c4/locations/eastasia",
"latitude": "22.267",
"longitude": "114.188",
"name": "eastasia",
"subscriptionId": null
},
{
"displayName": "Southeast Asia",
"id": "/subscriptions/1ce68363-bb47-4365-b243-7451a25611c4/locations/southeastasia",
"latitude": "1.283",
"longitude": "103.833",
"name": "southeastasia",
"subscriptionId": null
},
{
"displayName": "Central US",
"id": "/subscriptions/1ce68363-bb47-4365-b243-7451a25611c4/locations/centralus",
"latitude": "41.5908",
"longitude": "-93.6208",
"name": "centralus",
"subscriptionId": null
Let’s get the output in a more human readable table format.
az account list-locations -o table
DisplayName Latitude Longitude Name
-------------------- ---------- ----------- ------------------
East Asia 22.267 114.188 eastasia
Southeast Asia 1.283 103.833 southeastasia
Central US 41.5908 -93.6208 centralus
East US 37.3719 -79.8164 eastus
East US 2 36.6681 -78.3889 eastus2
West US 37.783 -122.417 westus
North Central US 41.8819 -87.6278 northcentralus
South Central US 29.4167 -98.5 southcentralus
North Europe 53.3478 -6.2597 northeurope
West Europe 52.3667 4.9 westeurope
Japan West 34.6939 135.5022 japanwest
Japan East 35.68 139.77 japaneast
Brazil South -23.55 -46.633 brazilsouth
Australia East -33.86 151.2094 australiaeast
Australia Southeast -37.8136 144.9631 australiasoutheast
South India 12.9822 80.1636 southindia
Central India 18.5822 73.9197 centralindia
West India 19.088 72.868 westindia
Canada Central 43.653 -79.383 canadacentral
Canada East 46.817 -71.217 canadaeast
UK South 50.941 -0.799 uksouth
UK West 53.427 -3.084 ukwest
West Central US 40.890 -110.234 westcentralus
West US 2 47.233 -119.852 westus2
Korea Central 37.5665 126.9780 koreacentral
Korea South 35.1796 129.0756 koreasouth
France Central 46.3772 2.3730 francecentral
France South 43.8345 2.1972 francesouth
Australia Central -35.3075 149.1244 australiacentral
Australia Central 2 -35.3075 149.1244 australiacentral2
UAE Central 24.466667 54.366669 uaecentral
UAE North 25.266666 55.316666 uaenorth
South Africa North -25.731340 28.218370 southafricanorth
South Africa West -34.075691 18.843266 southafricawest
Switzerland North 47.451542 8.564572 switzerlandnorth
Switzerland West 46.204391 6.143158 switzerlandwest
Germany North 53.073635 8.806422 germanynorth
Germany West Central 50.110924 8.682127 germanywestcentral
Norway West 58.969975 5.733107 norwaywest
Norway East 59.913868 10.752245 norwayeast
The entries in the Name
column are valid options for <location>
in the command we started out with.