Sub-processor agreement

Question

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the legal aspects of our collaboration with a university and the use of Microsoft Azure. Our startup is working closely with a university, and we have established a processor agreement. For our cloud infrastructure, we use Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft provides standard product terms and a data protection addendum (DPA).

The university expects us to have a sub-processor agreement between our company and Azure. Now, I am wondering if, in addition to these standard terms and the DPA, we actually need a separate sub-processor agreement with Azure. We want to ensure that we fully comply with legal requirements, especially regarding data protection and GDPR.

Has anyone experienced a similar situation? Should we be concerned about needing an additional sub-processor agreement, or are Microsoft’s standard terms and DPA sufficient to cover us in this scenario? Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

@Milan van Roessel - Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

Microsoft Licensing is currently not supported in the Microsoft Q&A platform; the supported products are listed over here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products (more to be added later on).

In order to assist best on your query, I would request you to post your query in here: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Professional-Services-Data-Protection-Addendum-DPA

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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