Local data storage exports your organization's Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta

21/02/2024

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What’s changing

Today, we’re introducing Google Workspace’s new feature, local data storage. This feature allows admins to export their organization’s Workspace data into the geographic location or locations of their choice. These are the available options for this feature:

User data: Specify users, groups, organizational units or your entire organization
Export frequency: Opt for continuous or one-time exports
Storage settings: Specify the geographic location of the Google Cloud storage bucket that the data is exported to, who can access the data, and more settings within the Google Cloud storage bucket.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why you’d use it

This update allows admins to export their organization's Workspace data into their own Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket located in a geographic location of their choice to meet their data sovereignty, compliance, and data archival needs.

Getting started

Admins:
- This feature is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add-on. Eligible Google Workspace customers can use this form to apply for the beta or contact us directly.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about exporting all of your organization’s data, and exporting data by organizational unit, group, or user. Additionally, you can use the Help Center to learn more about allowing your users to download their data..

Rollout pace

We are currently accepting beta sign-ups for this feature.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with Assured Controls add-on
If you don’t currently have the Assured Controls add-on, please contact us or reach out to your sales rep for more information.