Maybe I can find some international colleges that are struggling with the same thing. We are based in Germany and were looking into implementing GCC High for our CUI enclave. As I found out, Microsoft does not offer this service outside of the US. Has anyone found a workaround (e.g. subsidiary in the US) or actually gotten some kind of exemption from the US-only rule?

Secondly, does anyone have any insight into why they got this restriction in the first place?