"This sounds very much like an acknowledgment that stashing one's data in the Cloud for Sovereignty will not exempt it from prying eyes, although Microsoft insisted: 'The access is typically required in response to customer support requests. In such situations, Microsoft engineers can be granted temporary access with valid business justification'."
"In 2022, Frank Karlitschek, CEO of NextCloud, criticized Microsoft for misusing the term "sovereignty."
... While Microsoft will point to the multiple regions available to customers, it is still Azure running behind the scenes on the company's own servers, and governments heading its way run the risk of being locked into the company's ecosystem."