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- Free allowance
- A cloud-hosted shell with a persistent Azure Files share, free with an Azure account
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | a cloud-hosted shell with a persistent Azure Files share, free with an Azure account unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes; the session times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped the session times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity source
- request-rate no inbound SSH endpoint is published source
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| Identity | card an Azure account requires a card and a phone number |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Retention | the session times out after 20 minutes without interactive activity; the Azure Files share persists |
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| Interface | ssh the browser terminal, or the Azure CLI and the VS Code extension |
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| Tooling | a shell with az, git and common runtimes; a mounted Azure Files share |
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| Composes with | a persistent file share behind a 20-minute session timeout |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | It is one product and this is its record. |
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| Evidence note | reported re-read live on 2026-10-22 for the free-tier and limit figures |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 20 minutes
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Evidence 3
More fields 7
| billing model | flat-pool |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": 1200,"restart_required": false,"note": "20 minutes without interactive activity"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "free with the account","source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 5,"price_gib_month": "an Azure Files share is billed separately once past the free grant","durability": "Azure Files","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": true,"max_retention": "while the storage account exists"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "none","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| slug merge | microsoft-azure-cloud-shell is the same product under a renamed slug |
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Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed