Buying a Microsoft Fabric capacity in the UK South

Microsoft encourages every visitor to take a 60-day Fabric trial, which assumes the region of their existing Power BI region and may or may not default to your preferred home region. Annoyingly, this is very difficult to change, requiring a request to Microsoft support and often a payment. You should take the trial, as Fabric is a great product, but be aware that you may have difficulty extracting anything you do in the trial before it ends, and you may not be able to back it up to source control - at least not your usual source control - due to this region incompatibility. I talk about this issue in this video