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Databricks Designated Services

This article describes Databricks Designated Services, which are features in Databricks that use Databricks Geos to manage data residency when processing customer content.

Important

If a Designated Service is available in your workspace's Geo, then your content is processed in that Geo. Some Designated Services are not natively available in all Geos, and admins might need to enable cross-Geo processing before these Designated Services can be used. If you enable cross-Geo processing on your workspace, the Designated Service can process your content in other Geos. Importantly, your data is not stored outside of your workspace's Geo regardless of this setting.

Availability of Designated Services in each Geo

The following table describes the availability of Designated Services in each Geo:

To learn more about Azure data residency, see Data residency in Azure.

Feature Model provider Americas Asia Australia & New Zealand Europe India Mainland China Middle East and Africa
Pay-per-token Foundation Model APIs Model-dependent Available Available* Not available Available* Available* Not available Not available
AI Functions optimized for batch inference Model-dependent Available Available* Not available Available Available* Not available Not available
Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs Model-dependent Available Available* Not available Available* Available* Not available Not available
Agent Bricks Model-dependent Available Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Foundation Model Fine-tuning Model-dependent Available Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
AI-generated comments Databricks Available (US model) Available* Available* Available Available* Available* Available*
AI-based autocomplete Databricks Available (US model) Available* Available* Available Available* Available* Available*
Databricks Assistant chat and cell actions Azure AI Services Available (US model) Available* Available Available Available Available* Available*
Genie Azure AI Services Available (US model) Available* Available Available Available Available* Available*
AI/BI dashboards Azure AI Services Available (US model) Available* Available Available Available Available* Available*

* This feature is only available when you enable cross-Geo processing on your workspace. Where multiple models are available for a particular feature, some models might only be available if cross-Geo processing has been enabled.

Designated Services for workspaces within the EU Data boundary rely on EU data centers for processing.

Foundation Model Fine-tuning

With Foundation Model Fine-tuning, you can use your own data to customize a foundation model to optimize its performance for your specific application.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support Foundation Model Fine-tuning and where those models operate.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where Foundation Model Fine-tuning is hosted
United States United States
All other Geos Not available

Agent Bricks

Agent Bricks provides a simple approach to build and optimize domain-specific, high-quality AI agent systems for common AI use cases.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support Agent Bricks.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where Agent Bricks is hosted
United States United States
All other Geos Not available

AI-based autocomplete availability

AI-based autocomplete provides inline code suggestions as you type in Databricks notebooks, the SQL editor, and the file editor.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support AI-based autocomplete and where those models operate.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where AI-based autocomplete is processed
United States United States
EU Data Boundary EU Data Boundary
All other Geos Routed to United States geography

Databricks Assistant

Databricks Assistant is an AI-based companion pair programmer and support agent that makes you more efficient when creating notebooks, queries, and files.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where Assistant is processed
United States United States
EU Data Boundary EU Data Boundary
Australia Australia
India India
All other Geos Routed to United States geography

AI-generated comments in Unity Catalog tables

You can use Catalog Explorer to add AI-generated comments for any table or table column managed by Unity Catalog. AI-generated comments provide a quick way to help users discover data managed by Unity Catalog.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where AI-generated comments are processed
United States United States
EU Data Boundary EU Data Boundary
Australia Australia
India India
All other Geos Routed to United States geography

AI/BI dashboards

AI/BI dashboards feature AI-assisted authoring, an enhanced visualization library, and a streamlined configuration experience so that you can quickly transform data into sharable insights. Dashboards use AI services to create visualizations from natural-language prompts and support companion Genie spaces.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where Assistant is processed
United States United States
EU Data Boundary EU Data Boundary
Australia Australia
India India
All other Geos Routed to United States geography

AI/BI Genie

AI/BI Genie provides a way for business teams to interact with their data using natural language. It uses generative AI tailored to your organization's terminology and data, with the ability to monitor and refine its performance through user feedback.

Geographic area where your workspace is located Geographic area where Genie is processed
United States United States
EU Data Boundary EU Data Boundary
Australia Australia
India India
All other Geos Routed to United States geography