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azure blob storage 'always free' 5 gb
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- Free allowance
- 5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page. Egress is metered at $0.087/GB after the first 100 GB/month, which alone kills… unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "identity","why": "5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page. Egress is metered at $0.087/GB after the first 100 GB/month, which alone kills…","retry_when": "if the registration gate opens to a foreign individual","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field