Choose a geographic region for your data

Supported editions for this feature: Chrome Enterprise Core and Chrome Enterprise Premium

As an administrator, you can use data regions to store your covered Chrome Enterprise data in a specific geographic location. Your location options are:

• United States
• European Union (EU)—labeled Europe in the Admin console
• No preference

Users and browsers that don't have a supported edition aren't covered by data region policies—even if you apply a data region policy to their organizational unit.

For information about the types of data covered, see Chrome Service Specific Terms .

Consider tradeoffs

Before you choose a region for your data, consider the following:

• Selecting a specific region doesn't improve performance or fine-tune your network or data access.
• Sometimes, users outside the region where their data is located might experience higher latency. Latency could happen when users:
  • Access data stored in a region outside of their physical location
  • Travel internationally
• In rare cases, when a data region has been selected, users outside that region might lose access to the data due to events beyond Google’s control. For example, natural disasters.

Choose where your data is located

Data region can only be set at a domain level unless your organization also has a qualifying Workspace data regions edition .

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

2. Go to Menu  Data > Compliance > Data regions .
   Requires having the Data Regions Settings administrator privilege .

   This option appears only if your license includes Data regions.

3. Click Region, and then:
   1. Click Data at restselect a region: No Preference, United States, or Europe(for the EU).
4. Click Save.