Azure Face AI || Service Availablity

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Azure Face AI || Service Availablity

Ankit Rathod 371

i want to automated user photo tagging solution using Azure AI Face Recognition, while ensuring full compliance with regional data residency and government regulations.

following is the use case

Automatically tag User photos in a 3rd party DAM system or Azure Blob in local region with metadata (e.g., User ID, Name, Dept).
Process images securely within local Azure datacenters to comply with local data laws.

Note.: Azure Face AI detection service is not available in the indented region, which is UAE North, and as per the regulation the photos cant be send to other region for as storage.

Ravada Shivaprasad 10 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-16T09:05:14.7633333+00:00

Hi Ankit Rathod ,

Here are the answers to your queries:

Automatically tag user photos in a 3rd party DAM system or Azure Blob in the local region with metadata (e.g., User ID, Name, Dept):

You cannot leverage the default Face API to automatically tag user photos with usernames and departments. Instead, you need to train an image dataset with input features such as User ID, Name, and Dept as tags, and then evaluate it with a test dataset. For more information, please refer to image classification with Custom Vision. Custom Vision Service.

Regarding Data privacy and compliance with respect to local data compliance
Azure Provided Data Encryption at Rest, you can save the data in UAE central to stay compliant. we can add security through virtual network and proper RBAC rules. Those can be also mandated using Azure Policy.

Reference - Data privacy and Security, Azure Policies

Thanks
Ravada Shivaprasad 10 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-18T04:04:26.8866667+00:00

Hi Ankit Rathod

Did you get any chance to check the response.

Thank you!

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Ravada Shivaprasad 10 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-16T09:05:14.7633333+00:00

Hi Ankit Rathod ,

Here are the answers to your queries:

Automatically tag user photos in a 3rd party DAM system or Azure Blob in the local region with metadata (e.g., User ID, Name, Dept):

You cannot leverage the default Face API to automatically tag user photos with usernames and departments. Instead, you need to train an image dataset with input features such as User ID, Name, and Dept as tags, and then evaluate it with a test dataset. For more information, please refer to image classification with Custom Vision. Custom Vision Service.

Regarding Data privacy and compliance with respect to local data compliance
Azure Provided Data Encryption at Rest, you can save the data in UAE central to stay compliant. we can add security through virtual network and proper RBAC rules. Those can be also mandated using Azure Policy.

Reference - Data privacy and Security, Azure Policies

Thanks
Ravada Shivaprasad 10 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-18T04:04:26.8866667+00:00

Hi Ankit Rathod

Did you get any chance to check the response.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hey Ankit Rathod ,

Thanks for your question on Microsoft Q&A!

Since Azure Face AI isn’t available in UAE North and you can’t send data outside due to regulations, you can still achieve your photo tagging goal. Use Azure Machine Learning, which is available in UAE North, to build a custom face recognition model. Collect user photos with metadata (User ID, Name, Dept), train the model in Azure Machine Learning, and deploy it locally to tag images in your DAM system or Azure Blob. This keeps all processing within UAE North, complying with data laws. Alternatively, Azure AI Vision can detect faces but won’t identify users, so you’d need extra steps for tagging.

Hope this helps! If it’s what you needed, please upvote and mark as accepted to close the thread. Thanks!

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Ravada Shivaprasad 10 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-04-15T06:34:08.38+00:00

Hi Ankit Rathod

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