We are excited to announce that Microsoft 365 and Advanced Data Residency (ADR) are now available for commercial customers in our new cloud region in New Zealand. Multi-geo Capabilities for New Zealand are rolling out now.
With the availability of Microsoft 365, we now offer ADR (and soon Multi-Geo) add-ons to provide customers provisioned in New Zealand with greater control over the location of their cloud data.
- ADR provides guarantees that certain customer data will be stored at rest (in this case, in New Zealand) for several core online services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Exchange Online Protection, Office for the Web, Viva Connections, and certain Purview products.
- Multi-Geo Capabilities allows customers to configure in which geographies their Microsoft 365 user data is stored at rest, on a per-user basis and within a single tenant. Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot are available for Multi-Geo configuration.
This new cloud region will provide artificial intelligence (AI) and other cloud services to contribute to the digital transformation and the development of the AI economy in New Zealand.
“We’re excited to be opening the first hyperscale datacenter region in New Zealand, enabling local businesses to scale and innovate as never before for the benefit of our economy, businesses and society. Having data residency in Aotearoa also gives every organisation the confidence that they can move their data and operations into the public cloud, paving the way to leverage AI and other advanced technologies, empowering everyone to achieve more.”
-- Vanessa Sorenson, Managing Director, Microsoft New Zealand
This is a continuation of a series of datacenter launches over the last 20 months, including launches in Poland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Taiwan.
Learn more about empowering your organization with Microsoft 365, ADR, and Multi-Geo. For information about data residency and Microsoft 365 Copilot, see Data Residency for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
-- Microsoft 365 Datacenter and Data Residency Teams
Updated Dec 10, 2024
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