andrewstuart parent
No, this is my actual experience using azure.
I can go on Azure right now and create an instance and nobody will check anything manually and email me back something. Maybe you're confusing Azure with some other small town colocation provider.
If you want 1 instance, you're right. If you want 10 - 20 instances of one type in a region, the other poster's experience matches my own: you have to open a support request to ask for a quota increase, and that is not an automated process.
Accounts have instance count quotas; you can get them raised, but it is a support ticket to do so.
And sometimes, that is hard. I've had Azure support not able to understand what quota they need to raise / what quota is being requested. I had to at least link them to their own documentation on it… (partly the confusion is that quota support tickets allow selecting the quota as a piece of metadata on the ticket, but only for some quotas, and of course, mine was for one of the ones not listed. Why they don't just list all of them is anyone's guess.)
Nope, I went through this process exchanging more than 30 emails trying to get the instances I wanted.
"an instance" lol