In January, we up to date our Microsoft Copilot product line-up to increase Copilot for Microsoft 365 to extra companies and introduced no seat minimal for business plans.
Now we’re excited to announce the growth 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 are going to retailer the content material of your interactions with Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the identical nation or area wherein you retailer your current Microsoft 365 content material.
For the reason that 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 among your most precious belongings—your information. Our time-tested strategy to information privateness is grounded in our dedication to present you management over the information you place within the cloud, and this contains the place you retailer it. The great developments AI has delivered to productiveness, safety, and studying have positioned a highlight on these foundational information privateness and residency commitments, however they haven’t modified them. The expertise has developed, however our values are constant.
New Copilot for Microsoft 365 information commitments and choices
With this announcement, you’ve the peace of mind that content material for interplay information with Copilot for Microsoft 365 can be saved in accordance 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 gives 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 Information Residency gives information residency commitments for Alternate 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 Information Residency add-on (ADR) gives eligible clients with expanded protection of Microsoft 365 workloads, dedicated information residency in native datacenter areas, and prioritized tenant migration companies. ADR is offered in all of the areas coated by Product Phrases Information 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 gives clients with the flexibility to increase 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 overview particulars for coated workloads.
- EU Information 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. Prospects inside the scope of those commitments can relaxation assured that this information can be saved inside their native area. Later this 12 months, we are going to increase the Information Location Card within the Microsoft 365 admin middle to incorporate Copilot for Microsoft 365. This Information Location Card at present permits Microsoft 365 clients to view their particular geographic storage location for Alternate On-line, SharePoint On-line, and Microsoft Groups. For purchasers utilizing the ADR add-on, the Information Location Card affords extra transparency of geo location for prolonged workloads.
We encourage you to contact your Microsoft account crew to study concerning the choices accessible to handle your group’s information, and particularly whether or not Superior Information Residency or Multi-Geo capabilities would assist meet your information residency wants.
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