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 industrial plans.
Now we’re excited to announce the enlargement of Microsoft’s knowledge residency capabilities by including content material of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to our portfolio of information residency commitments and choices. We’re increasing our product phrases and Microsoft 365 knowledge 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 by which 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 in all your most precious belongings—your knowledge. Our time-tested strategy to knowledge privateness is grounded in our dedication to provide you management over the knowledge you set within the cloud, and this contains the place you retailer it. The super developments AI has delivered to productiveness, safety, and studying have positioned a highlight on these foundational knowledge 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 knowledge commitments and choices
With this announcement, you could have the reassurance that content material for interplay knowledge with Copilot for Microsoft 365 might be saved in keeping with your specified knowledge storage location for Microsoft 365 knowledge. This dedication solely applies to prospects whose tenants are provisioned in particular geographies, with add-on choices accessible for added geographies beneath. You possibly can already delete content material of interactions knowledge with Copilot for Microsoft 365 at any time.
Microsoft 365 gives an array of information storage choices to assist help your knowledge 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 gives knowledge residency commitments for Trade 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) gives eligible prospects with expanded protection of Microsoft 365 workloads, dedicated knowledge residency in native datacenter areas, and prioritized tenant migration providers. ADR is on the market in all of the areas lined by Product Phrases Knowledge Residency, in addition to Poland, Italy, and Israel with new native knowledge heart areas in Mexico and Spain coming quickly.
- Multi-Geo Capabilities add-on gives prospects 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 evaluate particulars for lined workloads.
- EU Knowledge Boundary permits prospects within the European Union and the European Free Commerce Affiliation to maintain their knowledge 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 knowledge. Prospects inside the scope of those commitments can relaxation assured that this knowledge might be saved inside their native area. Later this yr, we are going to increase the Knowledge Location Card within the Microsoft 365 admin heart to incorporate Copilot for Microsoft 365. This Knowledge Location Card presently permits Microsoft 365 prospects to view their particular geographic storage location for Trade On-line, SharePoint On-line, and Microsoft Groups. For purchasers utilizing the ADR add-on, the Knowledge Location Card affords extra transparency of geo location for prolonged workloads.
We encourage you to contact your Microsoft account crew to study in regards to the choices accessible to handle your group’s knowledge, and particularly whether or not Superior Knowledge Residency or Multi-Geo capabilities would assist meet your knowledge residency wants.
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