Microsoft to roll out ‘data boundary’ for EU customers from Jan. 1

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LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from Jan. 1.

The phased rollout of its “EU data boundary” will apply to all of its core cloud services – Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power BI platform.