Understanding Compliance Between Microsoft 365 Commercial, GCC, GCC-High and DoD Offerings

ThiryDB    I've never recommended Commercial for customers that have requirements to demonstrate protection of government data. I've always taken the stance that I recognize this is a customer decision; but one that I cannot support. Remember; as a Commercial customer for example you cannot be treated in accordance with government requirements. Perhaps you have a justifiable absence of need for your service provider to demonstrate support for (c)-(g) of 7012; or you have no concerns about your service provider executing incident response activities that impact your tenant in accordance with 800-53; 800-171; or DFARs; etc. These are customer decisions because that unique context; and the impact of that decision; remains appropriately the customers. It might help to know that most of the entities that I know that decided on Commercial at some point changed their mind and migrated a portion, or all, of their users to GCC &/or GCCH. Those that I know with a remaining presence in Commercial tend to have larger, more complex organizations where it makes sense to have multiple tenants. For most tenants the bright line between Commercial and GCC is that the latter commits to personnel screening requirements that support their tenant needs.