Cloud hosting
Does Microsoft Azure store data in Canada?
Azure
Yes, if you choose it.
Microsoft Azure offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Tier 4: US-owned, Canadian regionData can be stored in Canada, and the owner is a US company.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Canada Central (Toronto); Canada East (Québec City)
- Where it is processed
- Where you deploy it; two Canadian regions available
- Support and backups
- Not stated on the pages read
- Owner
- Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) · Parent country: United States
- Servers run by
- Microsoft-owned data centres · US company
- Customer-held keys
- Customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM (Microsoft)
- Certifications
- CCCS Medium (formerly PBMM) for Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Microsoft 365 (Microsoft)
- Worth knowing
- Federal departments' largest cloud supplier; GC framework agreement since 2019 (Microsoft).
What the rules say about this
- US CLOUD Act: The owner is a US company: storing data in Canada does not take it out of reach of US legal process.
- Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
- Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
- OCAP®: Data held by any outside vendor is not in the Nation's possession, whoever owns the vendor.
Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice.
Canadian alternatives to Microsoft Azure
Other cloud hosting listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Web Hosting | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes | Canadian | Not a US company |
| LunaNode | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes | Canadian | Not a US company |
| MapleDeploy | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes | Canadian | Not a US company |
| Micrologic | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes | Canadian | Not a US company |
| ThinkOn | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes | Canadian | Not a US company |
| VEXXHOST | Tier 1: Canadian end to end | Yes, if you choose it | Canadian | Not a US company |
| OVHcloud | Tier 3: Not US-owned, data in Canada | Yes, if you choose it | France | Not a US company |
Sources
All checked 2026-10-13. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.
- Where the data is stored: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list
- Who owns it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
- Supporting page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-cccs-medium
- Supporting page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/explore/global-infrastructure/data-residency/