Asserting the enlargement of Microsoft’s information residency capabilities

In January, we up to date our Microsoft Copilot product line-up to develop Copilot for Microsoft 365 to extra companies and introduced no seat minimal for business plans.

Now we’re excited to announce the enlargement of Microsoft’s information residency capabilities by including content material of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to our portfolio of knowledge residency commitments and choices. We’re increasing our product phrases and Microsoft 365 information residency choices to contractually assure that we’ll retailer the content material of your interactions with Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the identical nation or area through which you retailer your current Microsoft 365 content material.   

Because the early days of cloud computing, Microsoft has constructed our services and products with safety, privateness, compliance, and transparency at their basis. We all know that you just’re entrusting us with one in every of your most useful belongings—your information. Our time-tested method to information privateness is grounded in our dedication to present you management over the information you set within the cloud, and this consists of the place you retailer it. The super developments AI has dropped at productiveness, safety, and studying have positioned a highlight on these foundational information privateness and residency commitments, however they haven’t modified them. The know-how has developed, however our values are constant. 

New Copilot for Microsoft 365 information commitments and choices 

With this announcement, you may have the reassurance that content material for interplay information with Copilot for Microsoft 365 will likely be saved in line with your specified information storage location for Microsoft 365 information. This dedication solely applies to clients whose tenants are provisioned in particular geographies, with add-on choices accessible for extra geographies under. You’ll be able to already delete content material of interactions information with Copilot for Microsoft 365 at any time. 

Microsoft 365 offers an array of knowledge storage choices to assist assist your information residency and privateness obligations. Every of the next additionally applies to content material of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. 

• Product Phrases Knowledge Residency offers information residency commitments for Change On-line, SharePoint On-line, and Microsoft Groups within the following nation and areas: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the United Arab Emirates, United States, and the European Union.  
• Superior Knowledge Residency add-on (ADR) offers eligible clients with expanded protection of Microsoft 365 workloads, dedicated information residency in native datacenter areas, and prioritized tenant migration providers. ADR is accessible in all of the areas lined by Product Phrases Knowledge Residency, in addition to Poland, Italy, and Israel with new native information middle areas in Mexico and Spain coming quickly. 
• Multi-Geo Capabilities add-on offers clients with the flexibility to develop their Microsoft 365 presence to a number of geographic areas inside a single current Microsoft 365 tenant. Multi-Geo Capabilities can be found in the identical set of native areas as ADR plus the three macro areas—Americas, Asia-Pacific, and European Union. Please assessment particulars for lined workloads. 
• EU Knowledge Boundary permits clients within the European Union and the European Free Commerce Affiliation to maintain their information within the EU. 

What’s subsequent?

We now have up to date our commitments to mirror the inclusion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 content material interplay information. Clients throughout the scope of those commitments can relaxation assured that this information will likely be saved inside their native area. Later this 12 months, we’ll develop the Knowledge Location Card within the Microsoft 365 admin middle to incorporate Copilot for Microsoft 365. This Knowledge Location Card at the moment permits Microsoft 365 clients to view their particular geographic storage location for Change On-line, SharePoint On-line, and Microsoft Groups. For purchasers utilizing the ADR add-on, the Knowledge Location Card gives further transparency of geo location for prolonged workloads.   

We encourage you to contact your Microsoft account workforce to study in regards to the choices accessible to handle your group’s information, and particularly whether or not Superior Knowledge Residency or Multi-Geo capabilities would assist meet your information residency wants.  

Our imaginative and prescient for Microsoft Copilot is to carry the facility of generative AI to everybody. Thanks in your belief in us as we proceed this journey collectively.  

Be taught extra about Microsoft Copilot and go to the Copilot for Work web site for actionable steering on how one can begin remodeling work with Copilot at the moment.   

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