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to clarify, the purpose is we have separate subscriptions per region (NA / Europe) for regulatory compliance

What I'm trying to avoid is having two program runs be necessary (one for each subscription)

You can use an explicit provider to control which account resources get created in: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/azure/provider/>

interesting so create ProviderA that's set to Sub A, B-&gt;B and pass them in the ResourceOptions

<@UQ8K13T7X> do I need to run it as a service principal to make the provider work like that?

I am unsure on the exact details of configuring the azure provider. <@UB39JFCKC> might know, also a good question for the <#CRVK66N5U|> channel.

&gt; do I need to run it as a service principal to make the provider work like that?
No, you shouldn’t need that.

<@UB39JFCKC> any idea why after specifying (provider=MySubscriptionProvider) I'm seeing error messages indicating it's using the azure CLI?

```+  pulumi:pulumi:Stack SDP-cinsights-dual creating
+  pulumi:providers:azure-native amap_provider creating
+  pulumi:providers:azure-native amap_provider created
+  pulumi:providers:azure-native emea_provider creating
azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup cinsights-dual-amap-rg  error: building auth config: obtain subscription(...) from Azure CLI: Error parsing json result from the Azure CLI: Error waiting for the Azure CLI: exit status 1
+  pulumi:providers:azure-native emea_provider created```