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.

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 and New Zealand	Europe	India	Mainland China	Middle East and Africa
AI-generated comments	Databricks	Available (US model)	*	*	Available	*	*	*
AI-based autocomplete	Databricks	Available (US model)	*	*	Available	*	*	*
Databricks Assistant chat and cell actions	Azure AI Services	Available (US model)	*	*	Available	*	*	*

* This feature is not available for processing in the workspace Geo. However, you may be given the option to enable cross-Geo processing to use the feature in the workspace.

AI-based autocomplete availability

AI-based autocomplete provides inline code suggestions as you type in Databricks notebooks, the SQL editor, and the file editor.

The following table shows the geographic areas that support AI-based autocomplete and where those models operate.

Geographic area where your workspace is located	Geographic area where AI-based autocomplete is processed
United States	United States
Europe	Europe
All other Geos	Routed to United States geography

Databricks Assistant

Databricks Assistant is an AI-based companion pair programmer and support agent that makes you more efficient when creating notebooks, queries, and files.

Geographic area where your workspace is located	Geographic area where Assistant is processed
United States	United States
Europe	Europe
All other Geos	Routed to United States geography

AI-generated comments in Unity Catalog tables

You can use Catalog Explorer to add AI-generated comments for any table or table column managed by Unity Catalog. AI-generated comments provide a quick way to help users discover data managed by Unity Catalog.

Geographic area where your workspace is located	Geographic area where AI-generated comments are processed
United States	United States
Europe	Europe
All other Geos	Routed to United States geography