Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

[Erik]

It is our understanding that enabling unity catalog means that some metadata (for example usernames) will be sent to the USA for processing/storage. This is unfortunately a deal-breaker for us, and we need the data to reside solely in Europe for compliance reasons. Is there any plans for Unity-catalog-in-Europe?

[Sivaprasad1 · Accepted solution]

@Erik Parmann​ : There is no definitive timeline Europe region for now.

[Erik]

Thanks for the reply @Sivaprasad C S​ ! Is it possible to get a bit more information? Like, is it even planned to have unity in Europe at *some* point in time, or is it set up to always be US-only?

[youssefmrini]

Usernames have always been stored centrally in the US. That's similar to most global services for the IAM Layer. The only thing additional that gets stored in the US as part of UC is the metastore names. you can check this link ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/data-residency/)

Azure Databricks which stores identity data and certain tables names and object path information in the US.

Identity Data -> user & group names

Table names -> UC metastore names

Object path information -> Workspace ids

[Danny_V]

Is it still the case in 2026 with the announcement of the Automatic Identity Management  ?

Automatic Identity Management for Entra ID is now Generally Available in Azure Databricks | Databric...

Regards

[Kirankumarbs]

This blog talks about avoiding SCIM sync, but not data residency! Hence,  metastore, user names are still stored at US Central!

Actually, this is unfortunate for us too! We are also looking for 100% data rescidency at Europe!!!