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The BYOK tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about Bring Your Own Key, a cloud security model where customers retain control of their encryption keys. Recent content highlights Microsoft's admission that it cannot guarantee European customer data will not be shared with U.S. authorities, sparking debate on cloud sovereignty. This tag explores the implications of BYOK for data protection, compliance, and trust in cloud services, particularly for enterprise IT and security-conscious users. Topics include legal frameworks, technical implementation, and comparisons with other key management approaches.
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    GitHub Copilot SDK BYOK with Azure OpenAI in .NET 10: Entra ID and API Key Setup

    Microsoft's .NET Blog has published a short C# walkthrough on pointing the GitHub Copilot SDK at your own model deployment. Bruno Capuano's sample is a small .NET 10 console app that sends one question to a Microsoft Foundry or Azure OpenAI deployment instead of GitHub-hosted models. It isn't a...
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    Microsoft admits data may be shared with U.S. authorities: a cloud sovereignty turning point

    Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s...
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