For organizations in the EU, moving to the cloud raises important questions about control, data protection, and compliance with European laws like the GDPR. In this session, we’ll explore what digital sovereignty means in the context of Microsoft Azure.

We’ll look at how to keep control over your data by classifying it based on sensitivity and securing it with tools like Azure Information Protection and Managed HSM. We’ll also cover how Azure supports compliance through data residency guarantees, policies, confidential compute, and the EU Data Boundary. Finally, we’ll examine Azure Local to check if it can help us in this context? We will learn if all that is enough to ensure that personal data stays within Europe.