How to programatically know the current region in an azure role?

Question

I need to programmatically find the current region (e.g \"West US\" or \"East US\") where my current role is running. Is there any API to find this?

Answer 1

Consider using Get Cloud Service in the service management API. When you supply the service that your roles are a part of, you can retrieve a response similar to the following. Note the location field that I've starred.

  hosted-service-url
  hosted-service-name
  
    description
    name-of-affinity-group 
    **location-of-service**
    base-64-encoded-name-of-service
    current-status-of-service
    creation-date-of-service
    last-modification-date-of-service
    
      
        name-of-property
        value-of-property
      
    
    type-of-guest-agent
  
  thumbprint-of-winrm-certificate