The devil is in the details. For example, OAI does not have regional processing for AU [0] and their ZDR does not cover files[1]. Anthropic's ZDR [2] also does not cover files, so you really need to be careful, as a patient/consumer, to ensure that your health, or other sensitive data, that is being processed by SaaS frontier models is not contained in files. Which is asking a a lot of the medical provider to know how their systems work, they won't, which is why I will never opt in.
[0] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data#whic...
[1] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data#stor...
[2] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/zero-d...
Azure OpenAI is not the same as paying OpenAI directly. While you may not be able to pay OpenAI for them to run models in Australia, you can pay Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/azure-open...
The models are licensed to Microsoft, and you pay them for the inference.