Last week, the first Danish region in Azure finally opened, after being delayed in 2025.
Currently, only a subset of Azure features are supported. I recommend you visit azurecharts.com for the most up-to-date view of the products available: https://azurecharts.com/regions/?r=denmark-east
One thing is the products available. Another thing is the SKU’s. As a start, I realized that new new Azure App Service Premium v4 are not available. Only Premium v3 (Pv3) is available.
Unfortunately, I also found that my favorite Azure Function offering, Azure Flex Consumption, is not offered in the region yet.
Cost insights
I have made some analysis on the costs. It seems that costs are a quite a bit higher than comparable regions, West Europe, North Europe and Sweden Central. Here is an example for Azure App Services.
Since Pv4 is not available in Denmark East yet, I chose to look at the P0v3 Linux sku. Below is a comparison of the costs, from lower to higher, using the cheapest region, North Europe, as the index.
| Region | Price (USD/Hour) | Index |
| North Europe | $0.08400 | 100 % |
| Sweden Central | $0,08900 | 106 % |
| West Europe | $0,08900 | 106 % |
| Denmark East | $0,10075 | 120 % |
So the new region is 20 % more expensive than neighboring regions for Azure app service.
I also checked for Azure SQL and Azure Blob storage. In both cases, the prices were the same for all four regions. Lets hope the compute costs will go the same way.
What’s next?
The next datacenter in Europe, Denmark West, is already underway. The name is very suiting, as it will be built near Varde and Esbjerg. Some of the most Western parts of Denmark. And even closer to me. Exciting times. 🙂
More details (in Danish): https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/microsoft-offentliggoer-planer-om-at-opfoere-ny-datacenterregion-i-vestjylland/