About this tracker

A daily-updating tracker for Azure pricing and compute SKU availability across seven European regions: Belgium Central, West Europe, North Europe, Germany West Central, France Central, Sweden Central and Switzerland North. This page collects the data-source details, caveats, and disclaimers referenced throughout the site into one place.

Data sources

The tracker pulls from three Azure APIs that answer different questions:

Pricing Catalog comes from the public Azure Retail Prices API (no authentication required). It covers Pay-As-You-Go and Reservation prices for all Azure service families in a region. A record here means Azure publishes a price for that offer — it does not mean the service is deployable on any particular subscription. Some meters, such as blob storage and bandwidth, are priced in volume tiers; each tier is its own row, marked with the volume it starts at (for example "≥ 51,200 GB").

Compute Availability comes from the Azure Compute Resource SKUs API, which requires Azure service principal credentials. It lists which VM SKUs a specific subscription is permitted to deploy in a region, and in which availability zones — this is subscription-scoped and can differ across tenants. A SKU restricted in only some zones is still shown as available, with the usable zones listed. A SKU can appear in the pricing catalog without being deployable on your subscription, and vice versa.

Resource Types on the Compare page come from the Azure Resource Manager providers API (same credentials). It lists which regions each resource type, such as Microsoft.Web/sites, can be created in. That's a better answer to "is service X available here?" than a price, but it doesn't guarantee every SKU or feature of the service.

All three are collected daily by a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow and committed to this repository, giving a full git history of changes over time. Each region page lists what changed since the previous collection, and the RSS feed has one entry per region per day with changes.

How offers are classified

Pricing catalog records are grouped into 12 domains — Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Analytics & Data, AI & Machine Learning, Security, Management & Governance, Integration, Developer Tools, Containers, and Other — using an explicit rules-based mapping. This powers the domain chips on the Overview page and the domain filters on the Region and Digital Sovereignty pages.

"Available" doesn't mean there's capacity

ℹ️ Compute availability reflects what Azure's API permits for a specific subscription and region — it does not indicate real-time physical capacity. Constrained regions (notably West Europe) frequently return SkuNotAvailable / allocation failures at actual deployment time even for SKUs marked "Available" here. There is no public API for live capacity — the only way to truly confirm is to attempt (or reserve) the deployment.

Digital sovereignty scope

ℹ️ The Digital Sovereignty page only queries the same commercial pricing and compute APIs as the rest of this tracker, filtered to services relevant to data residency, confidential computing, encryption/key management, and compliance. It has no visibility into Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty add-ons (Sovereign Landing Zone policies, the EU Data Boundary program, Sovereign Public Cloud transparency controls), nor into national/government clouds (e.g. Azure Government, Microsoft Cloud Germany's legacy model). Those require the Azure Portal, your Microsoft account team, or dedicated compliance documentation to evaluate — they can't be detected from SKU/pricing APIs alone, and nothing on that page constitutes a sovereignty, residency, or compliance certification.

Limitations & disclaimer

⚠ This data is provided for reference only and may be incomplete, delayed, or incorrect. Pricing catalog records cover Pay-As-You-Go and Reservation (1yr/3yr) pricing in USD and EUR — they exclude Spot and Dev/Test pricing. Compute availability reflects Azure's API responses at collection time for one specific subscription and may not apply to yours. Always verify current availability, quotas, and pricing directly in the Azure Portal, via the az CLI, or with Microsoft before making decisions.

Data licensing & attribution

This is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft. "Azure" and related marks belong to Microsoft. Pricing data collected from the Azure Retail Prices API remains subject to Microsoft's own terms of use.