Today, the Azure Cloud Shell team, with Danny Maertens (Program Manager Microsoft), is announcing the availability of additional regions for persistent Cloud Shell storage. Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources, either using Bash or PowerShell. To be able to choose additional Azure regions for your Cloud Shell storage is a highly requested feature by customers with data sovereignty laws or regulations around the world. The new options available lets you pick additional options when choosing your Azure regions for your Cloud Shell storage account.

Azure Cloud Shell Regions

Currently, the following Azure Regions are available for Cloud Shell:

Primary regions

Central India

East US

North Europe

South Central US

Southeast Asia

West Europe

West US

Secondary regions

Australia Central

Australia East

Australia South

Brazil South

Canada Central

Canada East

Central US

East Asia

East US 2

France Central

Germany West

Japan East

Japan West

Korea Central

Korea South

North Central US

Norway East

South Africa North

South India

Switzerland North

UAE North

UK South

UK West

West Central US

West India

West US 2

You can find more about supported storage regions by Azure Cloud Shell on Microsoft Docs.

If you are using Cloud Shell today, you can change your Cloud Shell storage by dismounting your Azure Cloud Drive in your Cloud Shell session. This will give you the option to reconnect and rerun the first setup experience, and you can choose your preferred Cloud Shell region.

Dismount-CloudDrive

Bash:

Clouddrive unmount

PowerShell:

Dismount-CloudDrive

You can learn more about Azure Cloud Shell on Microsoft Docs and Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.