Enterprise data regions is included with Enterprise Plus or in the Data Regions add-on. Fundamental data regions is included with Enterprise Standard, Business Standard, Business Plus, Frontline Edition, and Enterprise Essentials. Data regions for Education is only available for Education customers.
With data regions, you can choose to store your covered data in a specific geographic location (the United States or Europe). Data regions cover data at rest (including backups) and data processing for customer-supplied data in several Google Workspace core services.
What are covered data and services?
The table below lists the Google Workspace core services and their data types covered by data regions.
| Google Workspace core service | Covered data | Data covered at rest | Data covered during processing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Subject line and body of emails, senders and recipients of messages, and attachments | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Calendar | Event titles and descriptions of events, dates, times, invitees, frequency, locations, and attachments | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Chat | Messages (including regular and custom status messages), attachments, and room names | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Docs, Drawings, Sheets, Slides, Vids | File body texts, embedded images, drawings, and associated end user-generated comments | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Drive |
Original file content uploaded to Drive (including texts, embedded images, drawings, and associated end user-generated comments) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Google Meet | Meet recordings (including chats in Google Drive), attendance reports, polling results, transcripts, and questions. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Vault | Vault exports | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Forms | Text, embedded images, responses, and draft responses | ✔ | |
| Google Keep | Note text and titles, images, drawings, and audio recordings | ✔ | |
| Google Sites | Text, embedded images, embedded site information, and embedded HTML/CSS/Javascript | ✔ |
What about other services and data types?
At this time, data regions can’t be applied to customer-supplied data or data types not specifically stated above, such as logs or cached content. To learn more about managing services not covered by your data policy, go to Set up advanced settings for data regions.
