How this provider sells
Hardware owner
The provider, in its own datacenters.
Price set by
The provider publishes one rate card per SKU per region.
You are buying from
A large cloud vendor with a contractual SLA behind the rate.
Widest spread on one card here: 12 listings of NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB in eastus at preemptible rates, $0.68 to $1.91 (182% apart). Several prices for one SKU are the vendor's own tiers — on-demand, spot and low-priority meters against the same machine — not different sellers.
Registered company
Data controller
Microsoft CorporationUnited States
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA
2 sources
“Microsoft Privacy, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA.”
“Microsoft Corporation and, for those in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited are the data controllers for personal data we collect through the products subject to this statement.”
Data controller
Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedEuropean Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Ireland
One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland
Source
“Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland.”
Maintainer designation (2026-09-13): Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, is treated as the registered company. The privacy statement names it as data controller; the Azure contracting entity itself is in the Microsoft Customer Agreement, which our crawler did not fetch.
These are the data controllers named in the privacy statement. The entity that contracts for Azure services is set in the Microsoft Customer Agreement, which is not among the pages we fetched. Quoted from Microsoft Azure’s own pages, read 2026-09-12. A missing line means the site does not say, not that the answer is no.
Cheapest rate over time
Not enough history yet. Price history comes from closing an offer row when its price changes, and the collector does not do that yet — so there is one observation per offer and nothing to chart. This fills in once that lands.
