I will work to share some of the functional differences and minor issues between Azure Public and Azure Government features and functionality.

Obviously there is the difference in endpoints and URLs for managing features.

Azure PublicAzure Government/GCC-High
Azure Portalhttps://portal.azure.comhttps://portal.azure.us
M365 Admin Portalhttps://admin.microsoft.com/https://portal.office365.us
Endpoint/Intune Portalhttp://endpoint.microsoft.comhttp://endpoint.microsoft.us
Exchange Admin Centerhttps://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/https://outlook.office365.us/ecp/
Purview/Compliance Portalhttps://compliance.microsoft.com/https://compliance.microsoft.us
Entrahttps://entra.microsoft.comhttps://entra.microsoft.us/
Security Portal – M365 Defenderhttps://security.microsoft.comhttps://security.microsoft.us

Additional Deltas

As of May 22 2023

Azure PublicAzure Government/GCC-High
Intune/Endpoint Windows Autopilot
Demo of M365 Features
Enhanced user create experience
SLA Monitoring
Verified ID
Conditional Access Overview
Identity Secure Score
Intune Add-ons
Intune Diagnostic Settings
Intune Organizational messages
Intune Windows Autopatch
Intune Microsoft Managed Desktop
Intune Endpoint Privilege Management
Intune connector for Active Directory
Android FOTA

APIs

FunctionAzure PublicAzure Government/GCC-High
Defender for Endpoint APIapi-us.securitycenter.microsoft.com
api-eu.securitycenter.microsoft.com
api-uk.securitycenter.microsoft.com
https://api-gov.securitycenter.microsoft.us
Loginhttps://login.microsoftonline.comhttps://login.microsoftonline.us
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Command and Control
winatp-gw-eus.microsoft.com
winatp-gw-cus.microsoft.com
winatp-gw-usgv.microsoft.com
winatp-gw-usgt.microsoft.com
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint EDR Cyber Data
us.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com

us-v20.events.data.microsoft.com
us4-v20.events.data.microsoft.com
Used by Microsoft Defender Antivirus to provide cloud-delivered protection and security intelligence updates
unitedstates.x.cp.wd.microsoft.com
unitedstates1.x.cp.wd.microsoft.us

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