You can control the geographical storage and processing of your organization's data, using data regions. Data regions help your organization comply with regional requirements or internal policies about where your data is managed. We offer these options, based on your Google Workspace edition:
- Fundamental data regions—Allows setting one data region policy for all users
- Data regions for Education—Adds features for qualified educational organizations
- Enterprise data regions—Adds flexibility and granularity for globally distributed organizations
- Assured Controls data regions (add-on)—Adds advanced reporting for compliance and security requirements
Use the tables on this page to compare availability. To find out your edition, go to Which edition and payment plan do I have?
Business editions (1-300 users)
Compare instead: Enterprise editions | Education editions | Essentials editions | Frontline editions
| Business Starter | Business Standard | Business Plus | |
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| Fundamental data regions | |||
| Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Enterprise data regions | |||
| Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups | |||
| Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
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| Set data region processing policies (including for organizational units and groups) |
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| Advanced settings for data regions | |||
| Assured Controls data regions (add-on) | |||
| Advanced data regions reports (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service) |
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Education editions
Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Enterprise editions | Essentials editions | Frontline editions
| Data regions for Education* | Education Standard | Education Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Set data region processing policies (Including for organizational units and groups) |
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| Advanced settings for data regions |
* The data regions feature is only available for Education Standard and Education Plus. It's not available for Education Fundamentals. Users who don't have a supported edition for Data regions for Education aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
Enterprise editions
Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Education editions | Essentials editions | Frontline editions
| Enterprise Standard | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental data regions | ||
| Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise data regions * | ||
| Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups | ✔ | |
| Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
✔ | |
| Set data region processing policies (including for organizational units and groups) |
✔ | |
| Advanced settings for data regions | ✔ | |
| Assured Controls data regions (add-on) ** | ||
| Advanced data regions reports (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service) |
✔ | |
| Policy compliance log events | ✔ | |
* Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
** Requires purchasing the Assured Controls data regions add-on
Essentials editions
Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Enterprise editions | Education editions | Frontline editions
| Essentials Starter | Essentials** | Enterprise Essentials | Enterprise Essentials Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental data regions | ||||
| Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔* | |||
| Enterprise data regions † | ||||
| Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups | ✔* | |||
| Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
✔* | |||
| Set data region processing policies (including for organizational units and groups) |
✔* | |||
| Advanced settings for data regions | ✔* | |||
| Assured Controls data regions (add-on) | ||||
| Advanced data regions reports (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service) |
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| Policy compliance log events | ||||
* This feature requires verifying your domain.
** New subscriptions to the Essentials edition are no longer available.
† Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
Frontline editions
Compare instead: Business editions (1-300 users) | Enterprise editions | Education editions | Essentials editions
| Frontline Starter | Frontline Standard | Frontline Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental data regions | |||
| Set a single data at rest region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enterprise data regions* | |||
| Set data at rest region policies for organizational units or groups | ✔ | ||
| Basic data regions reports (Includes data at rest, versions, and policy summaries) |
✔ | ||
| Set data region processing policies (Including for organizational units and groups) |
✔ | ||
| Advanced settings for data regions | ✔ | ||
| Assured Controls data regions (add-on)** | |||
| Advanced data regions reports (Includes data processing by region and service, and data at rest by service) |
✔ | ||
* Users who don't have a supported edition for Enterprise data regions aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.
** Requires purchasing the Assured Controls data regions add-on