Questions on availing db encryption key and licence limitation.

Hi Community,

One of our customer has below queries.

• Customer is active in the  Financial industry, very sensitive to data protection and access.
• Customer does have already D365 Marketing installed and would like to extend its usage but need to fulfill certain compliance requirements
• BYOK is a good, valid technical option but unfortunately they seem to be “too small” to be able to use it:

https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpower-platform%2Fadmin%2Fmanage-encryption-key&data=02%7C01%7Cbalgan%40microsoft.com%7C4da7e97e49b44411cc8108d854c883e5%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637352567487573717&sdata=jiExC5ewzUYvzcfqcgWjyKpZxy8Y82UpWnnIaqMKUNc%3D&reserved=0

• They have users /potential licenses is more ~ the 100 than the 1’000
• For this market, besides the big 2 major banks they would probably won’t be much opportunity for D365 Marketing with environment with more than 1’000 licenses.
• Customer would be a great reference to penetrate the Financial market with D365 Marketing.

Requirements:

They’re looking for an alternative technical solution to BYOK one as self-managed database encryption keys are only available for customer who has more than 1000 Power Apps plan or D365 plan.

Question:

Is there a way to consider the license level requirement for smaller markets?

Any guidance would be of great help!