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Can you clarify how segmenting the services has any effect on this? It seems that even if Microsoft had an entirely EU-only product that the same rules would ap

Can you clarify how segmenting the services has any effect on this? It seems that even if Microsoft had an entirely EU-only product that the same rules would apply for accessing the data.

merb 9y ago
Microsoft could do it like some other companies do it, like League of Legends in China which is leased (the whole software) to another company and not hosted by Riot Games. (well it was like that in the past, hosted by tencent until the company took over riot as a whole. but sea servers are still provided by garena as far as I know) Currently Microsoft already has a partnership with Deutsche Telekom in Germany (https://cloud.telekom.de/software/office-365/ https://cloud.telekom.de/software/office-365/) and they could easily lease the whole Office365 suite to Telekom, but that means that they get less money (at the moment it is still operated by microsoft and telekom is only there for additional trust and control). At the moment Office365 by Telekom is still hosted by Microsoft and Azure Germany is hosted by Microsoft aswell, but I guess they could lease it, if they really need to.
- jorvi 9y ago
  1Password also does this for their 1Password.eu accounts, of which the data is stored on EU AWS, which in turn is operated by ‘Amazon Web Services GmbH‘ :)