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 Genie is processed
United States	United States
Europe	Europe
Australia	Australia
India	India
All other Geos	Routed to United States geography