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

RichardWakeman 
Great series of articles!  Have to read them a few times over to make certain I understand them entirely.  

What led me here (to this series of articles) is trying to determine why certain M365 applications operating under a GCC / G3 license are attempting to communicate overseas.  We documented MS Word attempting to communicate with Dublin, Ireland.  We have also seen the translate feature in MS Word attempting to communicate with Singapore and a number of other PacRim countries (most of which we are geofenced by our firewall).  Oddly enough, the translate feature in Outlook doesn't do that.  I have reached out to Microsoft but they have not been able to answer the question.  The communications are TLS so I do not yet know precisely WHAT they are attempting to send, but it should be relatively easy to answer the question WHY they are attempting to talk at all.