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

Now we’re excited to announce the growth of Microsoft’s knowledge 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 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 during 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 certainly one of your most dear property—your knowledge. Our time-tested method to knowledge privateness is grounded in our dedication to offer you management over the knowledge you set within the cloud, and this contains the place you retailer it. The super developments AI has dropped at productiveness, safety, and studying have positioned a highlight on these foundational knowledge privateness and residency commitments, however they haven’t modified them. The expertise has advanced, however our values are constant. 

New Copilot for Microsoft 365 knowledge commitments and choices 

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

Microsoft 365 offers an array of knowledge 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 Information Residency offers knowledge 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 Information Residency add-on (ADR) offers eligible clients with expanded protection of Microsoft 365 workloads, dedicated knowledge 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 knowledge middle areas in Mexico and Spain coming quickly. 
• Multi-Geo Capabilities add-on offers clients with the power to broaden 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 evaluation particulars for coated workloads. 
• EU Information Boundary permits clients within the European Union and the European Free Commerce Affiliation to maintain their knowledge within the EU. 

What’s subsequent?

We’ve up to date our commitments to mirror the inclusion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 content material interplay knowledge. Clients throughout the scope of those commitments can relaxation assured that this knowledge shall be saved inside their native area. Later this yr, we are going to broaden the Information Location Card within the Microsoft 365 admin middle to incorporate Copilot for Microsoft 365. This Information Location Card presently 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 Information Location Card provides further transparency of geo location for prolonged workloads.   

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

Study extra about Microsoft Copilot and go to the Copilot for Work website for actionable steerage on how one can begin remodeling work with Copilot at the moment.   

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