Announcing general availability of Office 365 from local datacenters in South Korea

As part of a deep and continued commitment to make Office 365 the most trusted cloud service for productivity, the Office 365 Team is announcing the general availability of Office 365 from the new cloud datacenters in Seoul and Busan, South Korea. The Team is pleased to be the first global cloud productivity provider offering customer data residency in South Korea.

Since October 2014, the Team has expanded their global cloud footprint and opened new datacenter regions in Japan, Australia, India, Canada, U.K. and now South Korea. In addition to the same highly secured productivity capabilities already enjoyed by Office 365 customers all over the world, these new datacenter regions add local data residency, failover and disaster recovery to help effectively address the legal and regulatory needs of customers in industries like banking, public sector and healthcare.

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