GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm to meet regulatory requirements and customer expectations around data protection — particularly where sensitive information might be at play,

Enterprise cloud users will soon be able to store their GitHub data within the European Union.

In a significant move toward addressing Europe’s stringent data protection regulations, Microsoft’s GitHub has announced that it will offer enterprise clients the option to store their sensitive software code exclusively within data centers located in the European Union.