[richardw]

It's not a unique model - that's what e.g. Databricks does too. You pay for the resources, which means you can deploy them with whatever security model you require (good for enterprise, with all the firewalls and secrets and security reviews your heart desires), but you also pay for the management layer that Databricks offers. In Databricks' case you're basically doubling the infrastructure cost per hour.

Data and compute stay in your own tenant.

Edit: confirmed - look at that enterprise tier. If you want SSO & RBAC you click that button and pay $5k/month minimum. Definitely an enterprise play and the pricing model and approach to security will make sense to those customers.

[michaelmior]

Fair enough. I'm just not familiar with that pricing model, but that somewhat makes sense.