Azure Data Residency and GDPR Compliance Criteria

Question

All Our Current Azure Resources , Workloads and SQL Databases are located in the West-Europe region.
Now we want to create new SQL Databases in the US East, US West regions and want to use re use existing Azure workloads, Just checking is it violates the GDPR Compliance criteria?

Answer 1

I found this:
Specific criteria for companies required to comply are: A presence in an EU country. No presence in the EU, but it processes personal data of European residents. More than 250 employees.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3202771/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-requirements-deadlines-and-facts.html#:~:text=Specific%20criteria%20for%20companies%20required,More%20than%20250%20employees.

In my opinion you cannot move personal data outside EU. But please check again to make sure on that.