Azure regional changes — 2026-07-22

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212 new0 regressions0 parked
Daily executive summary

Compared with the 2026-07-21 snapshot, the 2026-07-22 scan recorded 212 new listings, 0 regressions, and 0 parked unknown transitions.

Where it changed: VM SKUs: 174 new listings, 0 regressions; Azure AI models: 38 new listings, 0 regressions.

Representative changes: model router model from OpenAI (version 2025-05-19) was newly listed in 12 regions; model router model from OpenAI (version 2025-08-07) was newly listed in 12 regions; model router model from OpenAI (version 2025-11-18) was newly listed in 12 regions.

What changed: 146 net-new regional listings, 66 restored regional listings.

What this means: The 212 new listings expand the set of regional options to validate. These are read-only catalog/list signals, not quota, capacity, or deployment results. Zero new delistings does not establish recovery of earlier missing listings.

7-day context (2026-07-16 to 2026-07-22): across 7 recorded scans, there were 1,158 new listings and 551 regressions. New listings led on 5 scans; regressions led on 2.

Archived commentary and representative evidence

Latest scan: 212 new availability signals and 0 regressions across 15 regions.

Azure AI models: newer models/versions rolling out (38 signals; 38 net-new regional availabilities). SRE impact: new regional model/version options for latency, residency, and model selection. Coverage now ranges from 4 to 21 of 64 monitored regions. The noisiest affected signal was unavailable 100.0% of prior observations. Expansion pattern: first observed in Africa; first observed in Middle East; regional expansion of an existing signal. Examples: canadacentral · openai.model-router.2025-05-19; canadacentral · openai.model-router.2025-08-07; canadacentral · openai.model-router.2025-11-18; canadaeast · openai.model-router.2025-05-19; and 34 more.

VM SKUs: VM sizes now offered (174 signals; 108 net-new regional availabilities, 66 restored availabilities, up to 2 prior disappearances). SRE impact: more compute shapes for right-sizing, performance, and cost tuning. Coverage now ranges from 7 to 56 of 64 monitored regions. The noisiest affected signal was unavailable 100.0% of prior observations. Expansion pattern: first observed in this geography; regional expansion of an existing signal; restored regional signal. Examples: eastus2 · dc16ads.cc.v5; eastus2 · dc16ads.v5; eastus2 · dc16as.cc.v5; eastus2 · dc16as.v5; and 170 more.

Engineering context

  • canadacentral aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-05-19 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 71/71 prior days (100.0%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • canadacentral aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-08-07 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 71/71 prior days (100.0%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • canadacentral aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-11-18 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 71/71 prior days (100.0%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • canadaeast aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-05-19 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 56/71 prior days (78.9%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • canadaeast aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-08-07 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 56/71 prior days (78.9%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • canadaeast aiModels.openai.model-router.2025-11-18 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 56/71 prior days (78.9%)coverage 21/64 monitored regions (32.8%, +12 regions)North America: 6 current, 4 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in canadacentral, canadaeast, japaneast, koreacentral, northeurope, norwayeast, and 6 more. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • centralus aiModels.openai.gpt-5-1-codex-max.2025-12-04 unavailable → available net-new regional availability
    unavailable 71/71 prior days (100.0%)coverage 4/64 monitored regions (6.2%, +2 regions)North America: 2 current, 1 priorregional expansion of an existing signal
    Also newly available in centralus, uksouth. Use this to evaluate model capabilities, regional deployment options, latency, and data residency. Azure OpenAI model availability
  • eastus2 vmSkus.standard.dc16ads.cc.v5 unavailable → available restored availability
    unavailable 64/71 prior days (90.1%)2 prior disappearancescoverage 13/64 monitored regions (20.3%, +1 region)North America: 6 current, 5 priorrestored regional signal
    Also newly available in eastus2. VM size availability affects right-sizing, performance, cost, and capacity fallback choices. Azure VM sizes
  • eastus2 vmSkus.standard.dc16ads.v5 unavailable → available restored availability
    unavailable 64/71 prior days (90.1%)2 prior disappearancescoverage 19/64 monitored regions (29.7%, +1 region)North America: 7 current, 6 priorrestored regional signal
    Also newly available in eastus2. VM size availability affects right-sizing, performance, cost, and capacity fallback choices. Azure VM sizes
  • eastus2 vmSkus.standard.dc16as.cc.v5 unavailable → available restored availability
    unavailable 64/71 prior days (90.1%)2 prior disappearancescoverage 13/64 monitored regions (20.3%, +1 region)North America: 6 current, 5 priorrestored regional signal
    Also newly available in eastus2. VM size availability affects right-sizing, performance, cost, and capacity fallback choices. Azure VM sizes

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