Regional availability for Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans

Important

All Microsoft Defender for Cloud features will be officially retired in the Azure in China region on August 18, 2026. Due to this upcoming retirement, Azure in China customers are no longer able to onboard new subscriptions to the service. A new subscription is any subscription that was not already onboarded to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service prior to August 18, 2025, the date of the retirement announcement. For more information on the retirement, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Deprecation in Microsoft Azure Operated by 21Vianet Announcement. Customers should work with their account representatives for Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet to assess the impact of this retirement on their own operations.

This article gives an overview of where you can use Microsoft Defender for Cloud plans across Azure. Check which Defender for Cloud services are available in your preferred region.

Azure

Defender for Storage

Supported regions:
China East

Unsupported regions:
China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for Storage (Malware Scanning)

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for APIs

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for Key Vault

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for Open-source Relational Databases

Supported regions:
China East 2, China North 2, China North 3

Unsupported regions:
China East, China North

Defender for Cosmos DB

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for SQL servers on machines

Supported regions:
China East 2, China North 2, China North 3

Unsupported regions:
China East, China North

Defender for Azure SQL Databases

Supported regions:
China East 2, China North 2, China North 3

Unsupported regions:
China East, China North

Sensitivity scan (DCSPM)

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Sensitivity scan (Defender for Storage plan)

Supported regions:
China East

Unsupported regions:
China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for AI

Supported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Unsupported regions:

Defender for Containers

Supported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 3

Unsupported regions:
China North 2

Defender CSPM

Available in all regions.

API Security Posture Management (DCSPM)

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

DevOps security (security connector for ADO/GH/GL)

Supported regions:

Unsupported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Defender for App Service

Supported regions:
China East, China East 2, China North, China North 2, China North 3

Unsupported regions:

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