Databricks Designated Services

This article describes Databricks Designated Services, which are features in Databricks that use Azure geographies 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 Chinese Mainland
Pay-per-token Foundation Model APIs Model-dependent Not available
AI Functions optimized for batch inference (excluding ai_parse_document) Model-dependent Not available
AI Function: ai_parse_document Databricks Not available
Provisioned throughput Foundation Model APIs Model-dependent Not available
Agent Bricks Model-dependent Not available
Foundation Model Fine-tuning Model-dependent Not available
AI-generated comments Databricks Available*
AI-based autocomplete Databricks Available*
Databricks Assistant chat and cell actions Azure AI Services Available*
Genie Azure AI Services Not available
AI/BI dashboards Azure AI Services Available*
Data classification Databricks 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.