Choose a geographic location for your data

Supported editions for this feature: Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition

Note:  If you use only one data region for all of your users, you can skip this step.

You can choose one data region for some of your users, or different data regions for specific departments or teams:

• To set the data region policy by department—Put user accounts in an organizational unit.
• To set the data region policy for users across or within departments—Put users in a configuration group.

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1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Data > Compliance > Data regions.
   Requires having the Data Regions Settings administrator privilege.

   This option appears only if your license includes Data regions.

3. Supported editions for this feature: Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus.

   (Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how

   Group settings override organizational units. Learn more

4. Click Region, and then:
   1. Click Data at restselect a region: No Preference, United States, or Europe (for the EU)click Save.

   2. Supported editions for this feature: Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus. 

      Click Data processingcheck the Process data at your selected data at rest region box click Save.
5. Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.

   To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).

With Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, you can view the status of your data regions storage within 24–48 hours of making a change to your data region policy. If you have Google Workspace Assured Controls, you can view the status of your storage and processing in an advanced report.

To view data regions status:

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Reporting > Reports > Apps Reports > Data regions.

   Requires having the Data Regions Reporting administrator privilege.

In the basic report, you can view the status of your region’s data at rest. The advanced report includes data at rest plus data processing broken down by region and by application.

For more information on the status of your data, go to View your data regions status reports.