Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Starter and Frontline Standard; Business Standard and Business Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
As an administrator, you can use data regions to store your covered Google Workspace data in a specific geographic location. Your location options are the United States, European Union (labeled Europe in the Google Admin console), or No preference.
Users who don't have a supported edition aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
For more information about the types of data covered, go to Data covered by data regions.
The AppSheet account requirements and steps to enable AppSheet data regions are different from those described in this section. For more information, see Manage AppSheet data residency.
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Before you begin: Consider tradeoffs
Before you choose a region for your data, consider the following points:
- Selecting a specific region doesn't improve performance or fine-tune your network or data access.
- Sometimes, users outside the region where their data is located might experience higher latency. Latency could happen when users:
- Edit shared objects in real time across regions
- Share files, such as documents, with someone outside their region
- Travel internationally
- In rare cases, when a data region has been selected, users outside that region might lose access to the data due to events beyond Google’s control (for example, natural disasters).
- If an administrator decides to include processing in their data regions policy, some advanced features might become unavailable. Learn more about advanced settings for data regions.
Note: Only Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers can specify a processing location.
Data region conflicts
When users send direct messages from different data regions, their data is stored in both regions. For example:
User A’s region |
User B’s region |
Direct messages data region |
USA |
EU |
USA/EU |
Any region |
EU |
Any region/EU |