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- Free allowance
- 'Cloud Shell provisions 5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your $HOME directory ... on a per-user basis and is available across projects.'
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddeleted after 120 days
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 'Cloud Shell provisions 5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your $HOME directory ... on a per-user basis and is available across projects.' unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) deleted after 120 days source
- write-gated review is auth-gated, not public source
5 GB hard; 50 h/week quota; VM terminates after 40 min idle (files outside $HOME lost); $HOME auto-deleted after 120 days of no access; web preview is auth-gated, not public. |
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| Identity | email (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Not specified in the quotas doc; the intended use is interactive admin, and there is no public-serving path. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | sftp, scp, ssh, rclone sftp |
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| Tooling | gcloud cloud-shell ssh, cloudshell scp, SFTP; the $HOME is a real ext4 disk you can rclone into. |
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| Composes with | 5 GB per Google account, shared across all that account's projects. High account value (it's also a free shell with gcloud auth), so it chains well for tooling, not for capacity. |
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| Reliability | Genuinely persistent and genuinely small. The 120-day deletion is real and is announced by email only. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | docs.cloud.google.com/shell/docs/quotas-limits | '5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your $HOME'; 'default weekly Cloud Shell quota is 50 hours'; 'don't access Cloud Shell for 120 days, Cloud Shell automatically deletes your $HOME' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "'Cloud Shell provisions 5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your $HOME directory ... on a per-user basis and is available across projects.'","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read