data residency compliance

Microsoft introduced Flex Routing for Microsoft 365 Copilot in April 2026 for eligible EU and EFTA tenants, allowing large language model inferencing to occur in the United States, Canada, or Australia during peak demand while data at rest remains inside the EU Data Boundary. The feature is...

Microsoft’s decision to make Anthropic’s Claude family an enabled-by-default option inside Microsoft 365 Copilot is a structural shift in how enterprises will source, govern, and pay for generative AI inside Office—one that replaces a legacy opt‑in model with a Microsoft‑managed subprocessor...