- Free allowance
- 10 TiB per CSC project by default.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | 10 TiB per CSC project by default. The quota table lists 'Allas / Storage / 10 TiB' with the increase path 'Contact CSC Service Desk'. There is no per-file or per-object size cap documented; the counted limits are 1,000 buckets per project and 500,000 objects per bucket. Above 200 TiB for free-of-charge users, CSC asks you to 'agree with CSC about storage terms and possible costs'. unit objects; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Binding | none 10 TiB per project is real and the door has a gatekeeper: CSC accounts come through Haka/Virtu or a Finnish organisation's contract. Identity binds before any limit does. |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Unmetered. Objects are served from the a3s.fi S3 endpoint; public buckets are readable by anyone over HTTPS with no key and no egress meter. Quoted rule: 'Making a bucket public means that every file and directory on the bucket will be accessible without any kind of authentication from anywhere on the internet using the HTTPS protocol.' |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, rclone, cli s3 |
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| Tooling | rclone (s3 backend, endpoint a3s.fi), s3cmd, aws cli, Swift/OpenStack CLI, a-commands suite (github.com/CSCfi/allas-cli-utils), Allas web UI at allas.csc.fi. The a-publish helper makes a bucket world-readable and prints the public URL. |
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| Composes with | One project = 10 TiB. Self-service is the multiplier: a CSC account holder in the Haka/Virtu federation can create additional Academic projects in MyCSC without a human gate ('Academic project category ... can be created only by members of Finnish higher education institutions, state research institutes and CSC', and project creation is a MyCSC button, not a review). Each new project brings its own 10 TiB Allas bucket quota, its own 1,000 buckets and its own 500k-object/bucket ceiling. Ten projects = 100 TiB with no conversation with anyone. |
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| Reliability | Storage-BU exhaustion closes the project; project lapse is what deletes data, not a retention timer. |
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| Notes | 10 TiB per CSC project by default. The quota table lists 'Allas / Storage / 10 TiB' with the increase path 'Contact CSC Service Desk'. There is no per-file or per-object size cap documented; the counted limits are 1,000 buckets per project and 500,000 objects per bucket. Above 200 TiB for free-of-charge users, CSC asks you to 'agree with CSC about storage terms and possible costs'. VERDICT: fails-identity. Quota and gate in one sentence: 10 TiB per CSC project by default, reachable only through a Haka or Virtu login or a home organisation with a CSC contract, so the quota is real and unreachable for a user. |
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| Evidence note | documented re-read 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200, 5,580 bytes). Documented quota; the eligibility question is not answered by this page. The verdict is fails-identity on the registration gate; the quota is documented and the gate is documented. |
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