New Data Residency Guarantees Add More Protection for Microsoft 365 Copilot Customers

• Copilot for Microsoft 365 data will be added to Microsoft’s data residency guarantees to help meet data sovereignty regulations.
• Beyond Copilot data, additional data residency add-ons can be purchased that cover other Microsoft 365 workloads, such as Purview data.
• A reminder: Data residency does not protect data from being sent outside corporate boundaries or from being seen by unintended internal users.

The generative AI behind Copilot for Microsoft 365 processes massive amounts of an organization’s stored data accessible through the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft has closed a gap in its data residency coverage by including prompts used for and content generated by Copilot for Microsoft 365 in existing residency guarantees. This means Microsoft guarantees that for customers whose tenants are provisioned in specific geographies, interaction data associated with Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be stored according to specified data storage location for Microsoft 365 data.