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.

Availability of Designated Services in each Geo

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

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

*

*

*

Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs

Model-dependent

Available

Available

*

Available

*

*

*

Foundation Model Fine-tuning

Model-dependent

Available

*

*

*

*

*

*

AI-generated comments

Databricks

Available (US Model)

*

*

Available

*

*

*

AI-based autocomplete

Databricks

Available (US model)

*

*

Available

*

*

*

Databricks Assistant chat and cell actions

Azure AI Services

Available (US model)

*

Available

Available

Available

*

*

Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation

Azure AI Services and Databricks

Available (US model)

*

*

Available

*

*

*

Genie

Azure AI Services

Available (US model)

*

Available

Available

Available

*

*

AI/BI dashboards

Azure AI Services

Available (US model)

*

Available

Available

Available

*

*

* This feature is not available for processing in the workspace Geo. However, you may be given the option to enable cross-Geo processing to use the feature in the workspace.

Pay-per-token Foundation Model API availability

Foundation Model APIs allow you to access and query a curated set of state-of-the-art open models. Pay-per-token Foundation Model APIs are recommended for getting started with foundation models.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support pay-per-token workloads and where those curated models operate. See the models and regions available for pay-per-token workloads.

Geographic area where your workspace is located

Geographic area where Foundation Model API is hosted

United States

United States

Europe

Europe

All other Geos

United States

Provisioned throughput Foundation Model API availability

Foundation Model APIs allow you to access and query a curated set of state-of-the-art open models. Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs are for production foundation model workloads that require performance guarantees.

See the regions available for provisioned throughput workloads.

Geographic area where your workspace is located

Geographic area where Foundation Model API is hosted

United States

United States

Australia

Australia

Brazil

Brazil

Canada

Canada

Europe

Europe

India

India

All other Geos

Unavailable

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

Unavailable

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

Europe

Europe

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

Europe

Europe

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

Europe

Europe

All other Geos

Routed to United States geography

Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation availability

Agent Evaluation helps developers evaluate the quality, cost, and latency of agentic AI applications, including RAG applications and chains.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation and where those models operate.

Geographic area where your workspace is located

Geographic area where Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation is processed

United States

United States

Europe

Europe

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

Europe

Europe

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 Assistant is processed

United States

United States

Europe

Europe

Australia

Australia

India

India

All other Geos

Routed to United States geography