Data covered by data regions

Supported editions for this feature: Enterprise data regions is included with Frontline Plus, Enterprise Plus, or in the Data Regions add-on; Fundamental data regions is included with Frontline Standard; Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard; Enterprise Essentials andEnterprise Essentials Plus. Data regions for Education is available for Education Standard and Education Plus. Compare your edition

With data regions, you can choose to store your covered data in a specific geographic location (the United States or Europe). Data regions cover data at rest (including backups) and data processing for customer-supplied data in several Google Workspace core services.

What are covered data and services?

The table below lists the Google Workspace core services and their data types covered by data regions.

Google Workspace core service	Covered data	Data covered at rest	Data covered during processing
Gmail	Subject line and body of emails, senders and recipients of messages, and attachments	✔	✔
Google Calendar	Event titles and descriptions of events, dates, times, invitees, frequency, locations, and attachments	✔	✔
Google Chat	Messages (including regular and custom status messages), attachments, and room names	✔	✔
Google Classroom	Class title, class announcements, class assignments and materials posted by educators, originality reports, class rosters of students and educators, and student grades	✔
Google Docs, Drawings, Sheets, Slides, Vids	File body texts, embedded images, drawings, and associated end user-generated comments	✔	✔
Google Drive	Original file content uploaded to Drive (including texts, embedded images, drawings, and associated end user-generated comments) Note:Google Drive stores files in the region designated by the data region policy of the file creator.	✔	✔
Google Meet	Meet recordings (including chats in Google Drive), attendance reports, polling results, transcripts, and questions.	✔	✔
Google Vault	Vault exports	✔	✔
Google Workspace with Gemini	Prompts and responses	✔	✔
Google Forms	Text, embedded images, responses, and draft responses	✔
Google Keep	Note text and titles, images, drawings, and audio recordings	✔
Google Sites	Text, embedded images, embedded site information, and embedded HTML/CSS/Javascript	✔

What about other services and data types?

At this time, data regions can’t be applied to customer-supplied data or data types not specifically stated above, such as logs or cached content. To learn more about managing services not covered by your data policy, go to Set up advanced settings for data regions.