What is Office 365?

Office 365 is a productivity suite of services hosted in Microsoft's public cloud that also includes the latest version of Office desktop applications.

To know where your data is stored based on your location, please go to https://products.office.com/en-us/where-is-your-data-located?geo=All to see all the regions where Microsoft has data centers that host Office 365 services.

If your organization is based in Europe, and the headquarters is in Portugal, for example, the data center locations, by default, are as follows:

  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • Austria
  • Finland
If your location is in a specific country, such as the UK, Germany, or France, then there are other data centers available in your region.

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