Set resource location in ARM template

When deploying an Azure Resource Manager template (ARM template), you must provide a location for each resource. The location doesn't need to be the same location as the resource group location.

Get available locations

Different resource types are supported in different locations. To get the supported locations for a resource type, use Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI.

((Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Batch).ResourceTypes `
  | Where-Object ResourceTypeName -eq batchAccounts).Locations

az provider show \
  --namespace Microsoft.Batch \
  --query "resourceTypes[?resourceType=='batchAccounts'].locations | [0]" \
  --out table

Use location parameter

To allow for flexibility when deploying your template, use a parameter to specify the location for resources. Set the default value of the parameter to resourceGroup().location.

The following example shows a storage account that is deployed to a location specified as a parameter:

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "storageAccountType": {
      "type": "string",
      "defaultValue": "Standard_LRS",
      "allowedValues": [
        "Standard_LRS",
        "Standard_GRS",
        "Premium_LRS"
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "description": "Storage Account type"
      }
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "defaultValue": "[resourceGroup().location]",
      "metadata": {
        "description": "Location for all resources."
      }
    }
  },
  "variables": {
    "storageAccountName": "[concat('storage', uniquestring(resourceGroup().id))]"
  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
      "apiVersion": "2018-07-01",
      "name": "[variables('storageAccountName')]",
      "location": "[parameters('location')]",
      "sku": {
        "name": "[parameters('storageAccountType')]"
      },
      "kind": "StorageV2",
      "properties": {}
    }
  ],
  "outputs": {
    "storageAccountName": {
      "type": "string",
      "value": "[variables('storageAccountName')]"
    }
  }
}

Next steps

• For the full list of template functions, see ARM template functions.
• For more information about template files, see Understand the structure and syntax of ARM templates.