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.
Also called Government Community Cloud.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- State
A parameter in OAuth that carries custom data through the authorisation flow and back, as with the "Support state parameter" option in APIM.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
- ACID
Four promises a database transaction makes: atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability. Azure Cosmos DB honours them, with snapshot isolation, only inside one logical partition, using stored procedures, triggers or transactional batch.
Related terms
- G3
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.