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.

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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:

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
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	Not available	Available*
AI/BI dashboards	Azure AI Services	Available (US model)	Available*	Available	Available	Available	Available*	Available*
Data classification	Databricks	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. See Supported foundation models on Mosaic AI Model Serving for model-specific region availability.

† Traffic is processed within the same country as the workspace region for Japan when you disable cross-Geo processing. For other countries in the Asia Geo, traffic can be sent for processing within Japan or Singapore.

When cross-geo processing is enabled for workspaces in the Americas Geo, a US-based model is used and for workspaces in Europe, a Europe-based model is used when available.