The European Union is home to some of the world’s most innovative companies. Databricks is proud to partner with thousands of leading European enterprises, including industry leaders like Mercedes-Benz, Shell, and GSK. Our commitment to their success is matched by our investment in the region, which includes 14 cloud regions, and a growing team of more than 1,500 employees throughout Europe.

We have a long-standing track record of evolving our product offerings to meet the needs of our customers, including data residency and compliance requirements. Our approach is multi-cloud and open-source - giving customers freedom from vendor lock-in and control over where their data lives, how it's protected, and how it's accessed. Databricks was a leader in supporting our customers' GDPR compliance objectives - it was the first platform to develop specific functionality with this goal, including enabling effective "right-to-be-forgotten" deletion management. We continuously audit and update our platform to align with evolving legislation, such as our work on data residency.

Our customers can confidently use our existing European public cloud regions to satisfy their data residency requirements, as we group data center regions into Geos for transparency and predictability on where their data is processed. For more details on our comprehensive approach to compliance and a list of our certifications, we encourage customers to visit the Databricks Trust Center.

The landscape for data sovereignty is constantly evolving, and we are seeing increased customer interest in sovereign cloud deployments. We are actively engaged with our cloud partners - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud - as they develop and deploy their sovereign cloud offerings to meet the needs of our European customers. Our goal is to empower our European customers to continue to innovate with the Databricks platform.