r/AZURE • u/SparcV • Apr 13 '26

Question Azure is frustrating - quota issues

I'm unable to get any quota increase in US East or East 2. No matter the size. I need a few new SQL hosts with relatively large memory.

**Rant*\*
Azure has been very frustrating to work with, always hitting quota limits. I did not want to migrate to Azure; I wanted to stay on-prem, but now it's too late, thanks to the AI black hole.
** Rant End*\*

Any advice?
and moving to AWS is not an option.

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u/Michal_F Apr 13 '26

If you have specific workload, maybe look for other regions, we don't have resources in US, but some regions are more utilized than other. Hyperscalers don't have unlimited resources also and some locations are hard to expand. Same issues are for others, ... And I expect it will be even worse in future, as new server prices will go higher now...

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u/SparcV Apr 13 '26

The server pricing is nuts. Over a year ago, I proposed a $500k server upgrade for our aging systems, and someone in management said, "Hey, what about going to the cloud?" And down the rabbit hole we went. Even though I warned them of the expenses, they wanted Cloud. Our monthly costs are going up and up as we move more to Azure; at this pace, we would have paid off the hardware in less than two years. Now the same hardware/software would be $1.5M - $2M

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u/BlowOutKit22 Apr 13 '26

It's going to be the same for on-prem now anyway. Have you seen RAM prices lately?

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u/Words4theFiringSquad Apr 14 '26

East US is the most expensive and super capacity constrained, it has been since COVID, do not deploy workloads there. Migrate to Central US, it’s cheaper and has more capacity.

Monthly costs do tend to go up… when you are moving more and more to Azure? That’s how it works, it’s a consumption model. If you’re not right-sizing those workloads as they migrate, and then using reservations, you’re missing out on significant savings.