{"id":654787,"date":"2025-02-26T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-finalizes-its-eu-sovereign-cloud-project\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:10:16","slug":"microsoft-finalizes-its-eu-sovereign-cloud-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-finalizes-its-eu-sovereign-cloud-project\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU.<\/p>\n

The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapp<\/a>ed up this February, Microsoft said<\/a>. With its completion, European customers can store and process data for Microsoft core cloud services, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and most Azure services, within the EU and European Free Trade Association regions (EFTA).<\/p>\n

A growing number of tech giants and cloud providers offer European data residency programs along the lines of the EU Data Boundary. These help customers comply with European local privacy and data protection laws like the GDPR, Germany\u2019s Federal Data Protection Act, and the\u00a0U.K.\u2019s data protection legislation. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization\u2019s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data.<\/p>\n

According to Microsoft, for cloud services supported by the EU Data Boundary, customer data and \u201cpseudonymized\u201d personal data are stored and processed in datacenters located in countries within the EU or EFTA. \u201cProfessional services data,\u201d which includes data that\u2019s provided to Microsoft, like certain log data, is stored at rest.<\/p>\n

Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page<\/a> outlines the requirements.<\/p>\n

EU regulators have spent years\u00a0flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn\u2019t the only target. In May 2023, Meta\u00a0was fined<\/a>\u00a0$1.3 billion by Ireland\u2019s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.<\/p>\n

In July 2023, the EU and U.S. agreed on a new \u201cData Privacy Framework,\u201d allowing data transfers as long as particular privacy guarantees and protections were made. Microsoft nonetheless last year announced plans<\/a> to keep all European cloud customers\u2019 personal data within the EU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU. The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapped up this February, Microsoft said. With its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-1883327378-e1730136121848.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75885,75492,97887,70286],"class_list":["post-654787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-enterprise","tag-eu","tag-cloud","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}