Foundry EU Data Zone premium doubles: the Swedish cost math
From 1 September 2026 Microsoft Foundry charges 20 percent over Global for EU Data Zone deployments, up from 10 percent, and 30 percent for Sweden Central regional, while Global pricing stays flat and West Europe regional hits 50 percent. Pay-as-you-go customers only pay the new rate on models launched from today, PTU customers pay immediately, and GPT-5.6 is not yet on regional Standard in Sweden, so here is the cost math and a six-step checklist.
Azure HorizonDB vs PostgreSQL pgvector vs AI Search for RAG
Azure HorizonDB reached public preview at Build 2026: a PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out engine with vector search built in, up to 128 TB of storage and Sweden Central among the five launch regions. For RAG embeddings on Azure the choice now runs three ways, decided by where the source data lives, how much retrieval quality matters and how close you are to Flexible Server's vertical-scaling ceiling.
Azure Sweden Central Deep Dive: Services, Latency, Residency
A 2026 snapshot of the Azure Sweden Central region — which services are fully available, latency numbers from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, the residency nuances that matter for GDPR, and how to plan a migration from West Europe.