Microsoft Azure Germany: Eligibility for Usage

Azure Germany: Eligibility

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This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.

Azure Germany can be used by legal residents of Germany only.

Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select No change is needed. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.

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A. B. C. D.

D

Azure Germany is available to eligible customers and partners globally who intend to do business in the EU/EFTA, including the United Kingdom.

Azure Germany offers a separate instance of Microsoft Azure services from within German datacenters. The datacenters are in two locations, Frankfurt/Main and

Magdeburg. This placement ensures that customer data remains in Germany and that the datacenters connect to each other through a private network. All customer data is exclusively stored in those datacenters. A designated German company--the German data trustee--controls access to customer data and the systems and infrastructure that hold customer data.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/germany/germany-welcome?toc=%2fazure%2fgermany%2ftoc.json https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/germany/germany-overview-data-trustee

The underlined text states that "Azure Germany can be used by legal residents of Germany only." The question is asking whether this statement is correct or incorrect and whether any changes are needed to make the statement correct.

The statement is incorrect because Azure Germany is not limited to legal residents of Germany only. Azure Germany is a cloud computing service that is specifically designed to meet the unique data residency requirements and compliance needs of customers in Germany, the European Union (EU), and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

Azure Germany is operated by a data trustee, T-Systems International GmbH, which is a German company and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. The data trustee manages access to customer data, ensuring that Microsoft does not have direct access to customer data unless explicitly authorized by the data trustee.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D, which states that "any user or enterprise that requires its data to reside in Germany" can use Azure Germany. This option is correct because Azure Germany is designed to meet the data residency requirements of customers in Germany, the EU, and the EFTA.

Option B, which states that "only enterprises that are registered in Germany," is incorrect because Azure Germany is not limited to enterprises registered in Germany only. Option C, which states that "only enterprises that purchase their Azure licenses from a partner based in Germany," is also incorrect because customers can purchase Azure Germany licenses directly from Microsoft or from a partner based outside of Germany.