A US government licence tier, used in the GCC cloud, that corresponds to E3 for commercial customers. Plan 1 of Defender for Office 365 is part of it.
Also called Microsoft 365 G3.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains G3 in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.
- Archive
Offline access tier for blobs, cheapest to store yet dearest to access. Reading a blob means rehydrating it first, which can take as long as 15 hours.
- GCC
A Microsoft 365 cloud for US government bodies at every level (federal, state, local and tribal) and the contractors who serve them, keeping data in the United States. For defence work, the GCC High and DoD environments offer stronger isolation.
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.