Microsoft EU summarizes sovereign cloud project

Microsoft says it has completed a multi-year project to use cloud services to store and process the European customers in the EU.

The project, the EU EU information border for Microsoft clouds, began January 2023gone Two more yearsAnd finally this February, Microsoft gossip. With the completion, European customers can store and process information for Microsoft Core Cround services, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, electrical platform and Azure services, EU and European Free Trade Union regions (EFTA).

The growing number of tech giants and cloud providers offers European data residency programs along the lines of the EU information border. These help clients, Europe’s local privacy and GDPR, the law of the German Federal Information Protection and the legislation of the Britain’s data protection legislation similar to data protection laws. The information residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s information, as well as local laws and policy requirements applied to this information.

According to Microsoft, cloud services, customer information and “deferred” personal information supported by the EU information borders are stored and processed in information centers located within the EU or EFTA. Like certain login information, the information provided to Microsoft is “professional services data”, is kept in recreation.

Microsoft notes that customers can get professional services storage liability for specific Azure services. This page describes the requirements.

EU regulators spent years How Microsoft’s flags on how Microsoft users processed users’ dataIncluding the legitimate grounds, the claims of the information processing and cloud services are not clarified. Microsoft is not the only target to be fair. Meta in May 2023 was fined $ 1.3 billion by the Privacy Guard of Irish data in connection with the transfer of information provided to the United States

In July 2023, the EU and the United States agreed to the new “Information Privacy Framework”, which allows data transfers to provide data for a certain privacy guarantee and protection. Microsoft Nevertheless, the plans announced last year All European Cloud customers keep personal data within the EU.