EU Data Boundary documentation — Microsoft Whiteboard

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• EU data boundary scope Report an error

  “The EU Data Boundary is a geographically defined boundary within which Microsoft has committed to store and process Customer Data and personal data for our Microsoft enterprise online services, including Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365.”

• Professional services data Report an error

  “Professional Services Data will be stored at rest for these services.”

• Documentation last updated Report an error

  “Last updated: February 26, 2025.”

• Continuing transfers exception Report an error

  “These commitments are subject to limited circumstances where Customer Data, personal data, and Professional Services Data will continue to be transferred outside the EU Data Boundary.”

• Customer data definition Report an error

  “Customer Data doesn't include Professional Services Data. For clarity, Customer Data also doesn't include information used to configure resources in the Online Services, such as technical settings and resource names.”

• Log pseudonymization Report an error

  “Microsoft requires all personal data in system-generated logs to be pseudonymized.”

• Pseudonymization techniques Report an error

  “Microsoft uses various techniques to pseudonymize personal data in system-generated logs, including encryption, masking, tokenization, and data blurring.”

• Professional services definition Report an error

  “Professional Services means the following services: (a) Microsoft’s consulting services, consisting of planning, advice, guidance, data migration, deployment and solution/software development services provided under a Microsoft Enterprise Services Work Order or, when agreed to in the Project Description, under a Cloud Workload Acceleration Agreement that incorporates the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum (DPA) by reference; and (b) technical support services provided by Microsoft that help customers identify and resolve issues affecting Products, including technical support provided as part of Microsoft Unified Support or Premier Support Services, and any other commercial technical support services.”

• EU data boundary countries Report an error

  “The EU Data Boundary consists of the countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).”

• Datacenter countries Report an error

  “The EU Data Boundary uses or may use Microsoft datacenters announced or currently operating in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.”

• Azure configuration Report an error

  “For Azure, regional services that a customer deploys in an EU Data Boundary region will be in-scope for the EU Data Boundary.”

• Azure arm configuration Report an error

  “To store Professional Services Data in the EU Data Boundary for Azure, customers must configure Azure Resource Manager to the EU Data Boundary.”

• Dynamics power platform configuration Report an error

  “To bring your environments in-scope for the EU Data Boundary, both of the following are required: (1) provision the tenant and all environments in the “European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA)” Macro Region Geography, and (2) maintain a billing address in an EU Data Boundary country.”

• Microsoft365 configuration Report an error

  “For Microsoft 365, customers with a sign-up location in a country or region in the EU or EFTA are in scope for the EU Data Boundary.”

• Microsoft365 multigeo exclusion Report an error

  “Customers who have purchased Multi-Geo Capabilities are not in scope for the EU Data Boundary even if their tenant is listed as being in a country or region in the EU or EFTA.”

• Data location assignment Report an error

  “In some cases, customers can select the EU deployment region for Customer Data directly; in others, the location is automatically assigned based on customer location, billing address, or a customer decision to have their environment reside in the EU Data Boundary.”

• GDPR pseudonymization definition Report an error

  “Pseudonymization, as defined in GDPR, Article 4(5), is the processing of personal data so that it can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without using additional information.”

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