Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page outlines the requirements.
EU regulators have spent years flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn’t the only target. In May 2023, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.