diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/bug-1647999-7aeda50a8d082d4c.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/bug-1647999-7aeda50a8d082d4c.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..384f916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/bug-1647999-7aeda50a8d082d4c.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    A new parameter, compute/compute_volume_common_az is introduced to
+    specify availability zone where tempest creates instances and volumes
+    for scenario tests, to allow us to run scenario tests in the deployment
+    which has multiple availability zones and cinder/cross_az_attach in
+    nova.conf is set to False.
diff --git a/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints.py b/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints.py
index 2cd8906..366d6a0 100644
--- a/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints.py
+++ b/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints.py
@@ -44,11 +44,14 @@
             cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
                 cls.services_client.delete_service, service['id'])
 
-            region = data_utils.rand_name('region')
+            region_name = data_utils.rand_name('region')
             url = data_utils.rand_url()
             endpoint = cls.client.create_endpoint(
                 service_id=cls.service_ids[i], interface=interfaces[i],
-                url=url, region=region, enabled=True)['endpoint']
+                url=url, region=region_name, enabled=True)['endpoint']
+            region = cls.regions_client.show_region(region_name)['region']
+            cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
+                cls.regions_client.delete_region, region['id'])
             cls.addClassResourceCleanup(
                 cls.client.delete_endpoint, endpoint['id'])
             cls.setup_endpoint_ids.append(endpoint['id'])
@@ -108,17 +111,19 @@
 
     @decorators.idempotent_id('0e2446d2-c1fd-461b-a729-b9e73e3e3b37')
     def test_create_list_show_delete_endpoint(self):
-        region = data_utils.rand_name('region')
+        region_name = data_utils.rand_name('region')
         url = data_utils.rand_url()
         interface = 'public'
         endpoint = self.client.create_endpoint(service_id=self.service_ids[0],
                                                interface=interface,
-                                               url=url, region=region,
+                                               url=url, region=region_name,
                                                enabled=True)['endpoint']
+        region = self.regions_client.show_region(region_name)['region']
+        self.addCleanup(self.regions_client.delete_region, region['id'])
         self.addCleanup(test_utils.call_and_ignore_notfound_exc,
                         self.client.delete_endpoint, endpoint['id'])
         # Asserting Create Endpoint response body
-        self.assertEqual(region, endpoint['region'])
+        self.assertEqual(region_name, endpoint['region'])
         self.assertEqual(url, endpoint['url'])
 
         # Checking if created endpoint is present in the list of endpoints
@@ -133,7 +138,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(self.service_ids[0], fetched_endpoint['service_id'])
         self.assertEqual(interface, fetched_endpoint['interface'])
         self.assertEqual(url, fetched_endpoint['url'])
-        self.assertEqual(region, fetched_endpoint['region'])
+        self.assertEqual(region_name, fetched_endpoint['region'])
         self.assertEqual(True, fetched_endpoint['enabled'])
 
         # Deleting the endpoint created in this method
@@ -161,28 +166,33 @@
         self.addCleanup(self.services_client.delete_service, service2['id'])
 
         # Creating an endpoint so as to check update endpoint with new values
-        region1 = data_utils.rand_name('region')
+        region1_name = data_utils.rand_name('region')
         url1 = data_utils.rand_url()
         interface1 = 'public'
         endpoint_for_update = (
             self.client.create_endpoint(service_id=self.service_ids[0],
                                         interface=interface1,
-                                        url=url1, region=region1,
+                                        url=url1, region=region1_name,
                                         enabled=True)['endpoint'])
-        self.addCleanup(self.client.delete_endpoint, endpoint_for_update['id'])
+        region1 = self.regions_client.show_region(region1_name)['region']
+        self.addCleanup(self.regions_client.delete_region, region1['id'])
 
         # Updating endpoint with new values
-        region2 = data_utils.rand_name('region')
+        region2_name = data_utils.rand_name('region')
         url2 = data_utils.rand_url()
         interface2 = 'internal'
         endpoint = self.client.update_endpoint(endpoint_for_update['id'],
                                                service_id=service2['id'],
                                                interface=interface2,
-                                               url=url2, region=region2,
+                                               url=url2, region=region2_name,
                                                enabled=False)['endpoint']
+        region2 = self.regions_client.show_region(region2_name)['region']
+        self.addCleanup(self.regions_client.delete_region, region2['id'])
+        self.addCleanup(self.client.delete_endpoint, endpoint_for_update['id'])
+
         # Asserting if the attributes of endpoint are updated
         self.assertEqual(service2['id'], endpoint['service_id'])
         self.assertEqual(interface2, endpoint['interface'])
         self.assertEqual(url2, endpoint['url'])
-        self.assertEqual(region2, endpoint['region'])
+        self.assertEqual(region2_name, endpoint['region'])
         self.assertEqual(False, endpoint['enabled'])
diff --git a/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints_negative.py b/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints_negative.py
index 4c3eb1c..164b577 100644
--- a/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints_negative.py
+++ b/tempest/api/identity/admin/v3/test_endpoints_negative.py
@@ -70,14 +70,16 @@
     def _assert_update_raises_bad_request(self, enabled):
 
         # Create an endpoint
-        region1 = data_utils.rand_name('region')
+        region1_name = data_utils.rand_name('region')
         url1 = data_utils.rand_url()
         interface1 = 'public'
         endpoint_for_update = (
             self.client.create_endpoint(service_id=self.service_id,
                                         interface=interface1,
-                                        url=url1, region=region1,
+                                        url=url1, region=region1_name,
                                         enabled=True)['endpoint'])
+        region1 = self.regions_client.show_region(region1_name)['region']
+        self.addCleanup(self.regions_client.delete_region, region1['id'])
         self.addCleanup(self.client.delete_endpoint, endpoint_for_update['id'])
 
         self.assertRaises(lib_exc.BadRequest, self.client.update_endpoint,
diff --git a/tempest/common/waiters.py b/tempest/common/waiters.py
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index e1b8cf5..11f3bf9
--- a/tempest/common/waiters.py
+++ b/tempest/common/waiters.py
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@
                      '/'.join((server_status, str(task_state))),
                      time.time() - start_time)
         if server_status == 'ERROR' and not ignore_error:
-            raise lib_exc.DeleteErrorException(resource_id=server_id)
+            raise lib_exc.DeleteErrorException(
+                "Server %s failed to delete and is in ERROR status" %
+                server_id)
 
         if int(time.time()) - start_time >= client.build_timeout:
             raise lib_exc.TimeoutException
diff --git a/tempest/config.py b/tempest/config.py
index 9e4718b..82cbe09 100644
--- a/tempest/config.py
+++ b/tempest/config.py
@@ -352,6 +352,19 @@
                     "If both values are not specified, Tempest avoids tests "
                     "which require a microversion. Valid values are string "
                     "with format 'X.Y' or string 'latest'"),
+    cfg.StrOpt('compute_volume_common_az',
+               default=None,
+               help='AZ to be used for Cinder and Nova. Set this parameter '
+                    'when the cloud has nova.conf: cinder.cross_az_attach '
+                    'set to false. Which means volumes attached to an '
+                    'instance must be in the same availability zone in Cinder '
+                    'as the instance availability zone in Nova. Set the '
+                    'common availability zone in this config which will be '
+                    'used to boot an instance as well as creating a volume. '
+                    'NOTE: If that AZ is not in Cinder (or '
+                    'allow_availability_zone_fallback=False in cinder.conf), '
+                    'the volume create request will fail and the instance '
+                    'will fail the build request.'),
 ]
 
 placement_group = cfg.OptGroup(name='placement',
diff --git a/tempest/lib/services/volume/v3/volumes_client.py b/tempest/lib/services/volume/v3/volumes_client.py
index 2dbdd11..a93c76e 100644
--- a/tempest/lib/services/volume/v3/volumes_client.py
+++ b/tempest/lib/services/volume/v3/volumes_client.py
@@ -212,7 +212,9 @@
         except lib_exc.NotFound:
             return True
         if volume["volume"]["status"] == "error_deleting":
-            raise lib_exc.DeleteErrorException(resource_id=id)
+            raise lib_exc.DeleteErrorException(
+                "Volume %s failed to delete and is in error_deleting status" %
+                volume['id'])
         return False
 
     @property
diff --git a/tempest/scenario/manager.py b/tempest/scenario/manager.py
index 87d7e76..6ce5b78 100644
--- a/tempest/scenario/manager.py
+++ b/tempest/scenario/manager.py
@@ -274,6 +274,10 @@
 
         tenant_network = self.get_tenant_network()
 
+        if CONF.compute.compute_volume_common_az:
+            kwargs.setdefault('availability_zone',
+                              CONF.compute.compute_volume_common_az)
+
         body, _ = compute.create_test_server(
             clients,
             tenant_network=tenant_network,
@@ -307,6 +311,11 @@
                   'imageRef': imageRef,
                   'volume_type': volume_type,
                   'size': size}
+
+        if CONF.compute.compute_volume_common_az:
+            kwargs.setdefault('availability_zone',
+                              CONF.compute.compute_volume_common_az)
+
         volume = self.volumes_client.create_volume(**kwargs)['volume']
 
         self.addCleanup(self.volumes_client.wait_for_resource_deletion,