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Language service supported regions

The Language service is available for use in several Azure regions. Use this article to learn about the regional support and limitations.

Region support overview

Typically you can refer to the region support for details, and most Language service capabilities are available in all supported regions. Some Language service capabilities, however, are only available in select regions.

Note

Language service doesn't store or process customer data outside the region you deploy the service instance in.

Conversational language understanding and orchestration workflow

Conversational language understanding and orchestration workflow are only available in some Azure regions. Some regions are available for both authoring and prediction, while other regions are prediction only. Language resources in authoring regions allow you to create, edit, train, and deploy your projects. Language resources in prediction regions allow you to get predictions from a deployment.

Region Authoring Prediction
AustraliaEast ✓ ✓
BrazilSouth ✓
CanadaCentral ✓ ✓
CanadaEast ✓
CentralIndia ✓ ✓
CentralUS ✓
ChinaEast2 ✓ ✓
ChinaNorth2 ✓
EastAsia ✓
EastUS ✓ ✓
EastUS2 ✓ ✓
FranceCentral ✓
GermanyWestCentral ✓
ItalyNorth ✓
JapanEast ✓
JapanWest ✓
JioIndiaCentral ✓
JioIndiaWest ✓
KoreaCentral ✓
NorthCentralUS ✓
NorthEurope ✓ ✓
NorwayEast ✓
QatarCentral ✓
SouthAfricaNorth ✓
SouthCentralUS ✓ ✓
SoutheastAsia ✓
SwedenCentral ✓
SwitzerlandNorth ✓ ✓
UAENorth ✓
UKSouth ✓ ✓
UKWest ✓
WestCentralUS ✓
WestEurope ✓ ✓
WestUS ✓
WestUS2 ✓ ✓
WestUS3 ✓ ✓

Custom named entity recognition

Custom named entity recognition is only available in some Azure regions. Some regions are available for both authoring and prediction, while other regions are prediction only. Language resources in authoring regions allow you to create, edit, train, and deploy your projects. Language resources in prediction regions allow you to get predictions from a deployment.

Region Authoring Prediction
AustraliaEast ✓ ✓
BrazilSouth ✓
CanadaCentral ✓ ✓
CanadaEast ✓
CentralIndia ✓ ✓
CentralUS ✓
EastAsia ✓
EastUS ✓ ✓
EastUS2 ✓ ✓
FranceCentral ✓
GermanyWestCentral ✓
JapanEast ✓
JapanWest ✓
JioIndiaCentral ✓
JioIndiaWest ✓
KoreaCentral ✓
NorthCentralUS ✓
NorthEurope ✓ ✓
NorwayEast ✓
QatarCentral ✓
SouthAfricaNorth ✓
SouthCentralUS ✓ ✓
SoutheastAsia ✓
SwedenCentral ✓
SwitzerlandNorth ✓ ✓
UAENorth ✓
UKSouth ✓ ✓
UKWest ✓
WestCentralUS ✓
WestEurope ✓ ✓
WestUS ✓
WestUS2 ✓ ✓
WestUS3 ✓ ✓

Data augmentation feature in Custom Named Entity Recognition

The data augmentation capability allows users to use an Azure OpenAI model to generate supplementary training data during the creation of a custom named entity recognition model. This functionality is currently limited to select regions.

  • All entity data utilized with data augmentation is required to include a description field.
  • Supported Azure OpenAI model types for this feature are gpt-4o and gpt-4 32k.
  • The language resource must also have the Azure OpenAI Contributor role assigned on the Azure OpenAI resource.
Region CNER data augmentation support
EastUS ✓
SwitzerlandNorth ✓
AustraliaEast ✓

Custom text classification

Custom text classification is only available in some Azure regions. Some regions are available for both authoring and prediction, while other regions are prediction only. Language resources in authoring regions allow you to create, edit, train, and deploy your projects. Language resources in prediction regions allow you to get predictions from a deployment.

Region Authoring Prediction
AustraliaEast ✓ ✓
BrazilSouth ✓
CanadaCentral ✓ ✓
CanadaEast ✓
CentralIndia ✓ ✓
CentralUS ✓
EastAsia ✓
EastUS ✓ ✓
EastUS2 ✓ ✓
FranceCentral ✓
GermanyWestCentral ✓
JapanEast ✓
JapanWest ✓
JioIndiaCentral ✓
JioIndiaWest ✓
KoreaCentral ✓
NorthCentralUS ✓
NorthEurope ✓ ✓
NorwayEast ✓
QatarCentral ✓
SouthAfricaNorth ✓
SouthCentralUS ✓ ✓
SoutheastAsia ✓
SwedenCentral ✓
SwitzerlandNorth ✓ ✓
UAENorth ✓
UKSouth ✓ ✓
UKWest ✓
WestCentralUS ✓
WestEurope ✓ ✓
WestUS ✓
WestUS2 ✓ ✓
WestUS3 ✓ ✓

Summarization

Region Text abstractive summarization Conversation summarization
AustraliaEast ✓ ✓
CanadaCentral ✓ ✓
CentralUS ✓ ✓
ChinaNorth3 ✓ ✓
EastUS ✓ ✓
EastUS2 ✓ ✓
FranceCentral ✓ ✓
GermanyWestCentral ✓ ✓
ItalyNorth ✓ ✓
JapanEast ✓ ✓
NorthCentralUS ✓ ✓
NorthEurope ✓ ✓
SouthCentralUS ✓ ✓
SouthUK ✓ ✓
SoutheastAsia ✓ ✓
SwitzerlandNorth ✓ ✓
USGovVirginia ✓ ✓
USGovArizona ✓ ✓
USNatEast ✓ ✓
USNatWest ✓ ✓
USSecEast ✓ ✓
USSecWest ✓ ✓
WestEurope ✓ ✓
WestUS ✓ ✓
WestUS2 ✓ ✓

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