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Canada only Geo for Entra ID?

Alex Gagnon 92 Reputation points
2024-01-28T19:07:57.74+00:00

Hi, I was reading through this article for Entra ID data residency, and I notice that Canada is lumped into the North America Geography (unlike Japan/Australia for example, which have their own), but also in the article, it mentions that "Microsoft Entra Core Store data, stored in data centers closest to the tenant-residency location, to reduce latency and provide fast user sign-in times". Since Canada has both Canada Central and East DCs, I would expect my tenant to be in Canada then, however in my admin portal I see this: User's image

Is there a way to ensure that tenants for Canadian users remain only on Canadian DCs? And if so, is there a way to migrate my existing tenant to them?

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  1. Akshay-MSFT 17,961 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2024-01-29T06:25:24.9533333+00:00

    @Alex Gagnon

    Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A, from above description I could understand that you have following ask:

    • Why does your Entra ID tenant is located in US datacenter when Canada have its own?
    • How to migrate your tenant and your existing users to Canada DC?

    Please do correct me if the above-mentioned ask is not correct by responding in the comments.

    • Why does your Entra ID tenant is located in US datacenter when Canada has its own?

    Yes, you are right Canada have its own Azure DC, however as per products availability region Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and **Azure Active Directory External Identities **are Non-regional services to any DC (Non-regional services are ones where there is no dependency on a specific Azure region).

    Due to above dependency your Entra ID tenant would show up US datacenter as location. Similarly for other regions within North America say Central US, East US, East US 2, North Central US, South, Central US, West Central US or West US this is a non-regional service i.e., they could choose country but not the data location. User's image

    • How to migrate your tenant and your existing users to Canada DC?

    As explained above since Entra ID is a Non-regional service, only country/region could be chosen for tenant but not the data location. And this applies to all the Azure regions not only Canada.

    *Please "Accept the answer (Yes)" and "share your feedback ". This will help us and others in the community as well.

    Thanks,

    Akshay Kaushik*

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