Microsoft Defender requires a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal subscription; however, it is not currently available in all regions where Microsoft 365 Family or Personal are available.

The tabs below list the regions, for each platform, where Microsoft Defender is not currently available. We'll update these lists as the availability changes.

Belarus

Guernsey

Pitcairn Islands

Réunion

Russia

Saudi Arabia

American Samoa

Antarctica

Antigua and Barbuda

Belarus

Bhutan

Bonaire

British Virgin Islands

Cabo Verde

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Comoros

Cook Islands

Djibouti

Dominica

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Falkland Islands

Faroe Islands

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

Gibraltar

Greenland

Grenada

Guam

Guernsey

Guinea-Bissau

Jersey

Kiribati

Liechtenstein

Marshall Islands

Martinique

Mayotte

Micronesia

Montserrat

Nauru

Niue

Norfolk Island

Northern Mariana Islands

Palau

Palestinian Authority

Pitcairn Islands

Réunion

Russia

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Solomon Islands

St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha

Suriname

Tokelau

Tonga

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

U.S. Virgin Islands

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Wallis and Futuna

Afghanistan

American Samoa

Anguilla

Antarctica

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

Barbados

Belarus

Bhutan

Bonaire

Botswana

British Virgin Islands

Brunei

Cabo Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

China

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Comoros

Cook Islands

Curaçao

Djibouti

Dominica

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

eSwatini

Falkland Islands

Faroe Islands

Fiji

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Gibraltar

Greenland

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guernsey

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Jersey

Kiribati

Laos

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Maldives

Marshall Islands

Martinique

Mauritania

Mayotte

Micronesia

Montserrat

Nauru

New Caledonia

Niger

Niue

Norfolk Island

Northern Mariana Islands

Palau

Palestinian Authority

Papua New Guinea

Pitcairn Islands

Réunion

Russia

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Solomon Islands

Somalia

St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha

Suriname

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tokelau

Tonga

Turkmenistan

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu

U.S. Virgin Islands

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Wallis and Futuna

Yemen

Zimbabwe

American Samoa

Antarctica

Belarus

Brunei

Burundi

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Comoros

Cook Islands

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Falkland Islands

Faroe Islands

Fiji

Guernsey

Kiribati

Libya

Malawi

Mayotte

Montserrat

Nauru

New Caledonia

Niger

Niue

Norfolk Island

Northern Mariana Islands

Papua New Guinea

Pitcairn Islands

Réunion

Russia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Solomon Islands

St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha

Suriname

Timor-Leste

Tokelau

Tonga

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Vatican City

Wallis and Futuna

Belarus

Guernsey

Pitcairn Islands

Réunion

Russia

Saudi Arabia

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