Office 365 local datacenters now available in the United Kingdom

Today, reflecting our deep and continued commitment to make Office 365 the most trusted cloud service for productivity, we are announcing the general availability of Office 365 from multiple local datacenters in the United Kingdom. We are pleased to be the first global cloud productivity provider offering U.K. data residency for core customer data at rest.

Since October 2014, we have rapidly expanded our global cloud footprint and opened new datacenter regions in Japan, Australia, India, Canada and now the U.K. In addition to the highly secure productivity capabilities already enjoyed by Office 365 customers all over the world, these new data center regions add in-region data residency, failover and disaster recovery to help effectively address the legal, regulatory and compliance needs of customers in industries like banking, government, public sector and healthcare.

To learn more about Office 365 and our security and compliance capabilities, please visit our website and the Office 365 Trust Center. To read more about Microsoft Cloud in the U.K., please visit the Official Microsoft Blog.

—Rajesh Jha, corporate vice president for the Office 365 team