Compliance with data policies in view of a possible migration

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon software, which when executed by a set of processors of a datacenter hardware layer of a datacenter, provides a cloud-based software provider instance to host an organization instance of a customer of a cloud-based software provider, wherein the cloud-based software provider instance and the organization instance are part of a datacenter customer layer, the cloud-based software provider instance comprising:
• a set of one or more data privacy or data security policies that include geographic region policies representing data privacy or data security laws, regulations, or policy of different geographic regions;
• and
• a data policy compliance service to operate on the set of one or more policies relative to the organization instance to provide dashboards to the customer of the cloud-based software provider, wherein the data policy compliance service includes,
• a compliance assessment metric calculator to determine compliance assessment metrics to present in the dashboards that are based on the set of one or more policies, customer data including personal data in the organization instance, and rules to manage personal data in the organization instance;
• and
• a migration explorer to allow a user to see the dashboards with the compliance assessment metrics for a plurality of geographic regions that include datacenters that may be used to host the organization instance.