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azure open datasets (as a hosting programme)
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/open-datasetsstorage/azure-open-datasets-2JSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
Sibling records disagree:
- Free allowance
- No byte allowance is published for contributed data.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported10 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | No byte allowance is published for contributed data. Microsoft pays the storage cost of hosting Azure Open Datasets, and most datasets are free to read. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Binding | none no byte allowance or per-user quota is published; the programme hosts curated public datasets and takes contributions by emailed request, so it is not a general storage allowance |
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| Identity | email Reading the datasets needs no Azure account. |
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| Egress | Reads of large datasets can be charged to the reading Azure subscription as egress (read operations plus network bandwidth); most datasets are free to access. |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Reliability | Curated catalogue of public datasets. A dataset is contributed by emailing a request that states the dataset size and its expected yearly growth; no application form, quota or size limit is published. There is no SLA or availability guarantee for the datasets. |
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| Notes | No intake at all. It is a curated catalogue of Microsoft/partner data surfaced through Azure ML; there is no application, no quota and no route to place your own 20 TB there. |
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| Evidence note | reported Re-read on 2026-11-03 from the vendor pages https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/open-datasets (Microsoft pays hosting storage costs; no SLA; egress can be charged to the reading subscription; no additional charge for most datasets) and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/open-datasets/overview-what-are-open-datasets (public datasets can be shared through the programme; a contribute-a-dataset email link whose template lists dataset size and expected yearly growth; no Azure account is needed to read). Confidence stays reported: the verdict text says there is no intake route, and the Learn page states an email contribution route; neither page states a quota. |
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Evidence 10
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "write-gated","why": "No intake at all. It is a curated catalogue of Microsoft/partner data surfaced through Azure ML; there is no application, no quota and no route to place your own 20 TB there.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: 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