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Microsoft Azure Free Account — Blob Storage
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-servicesIaaSstorage/microsoft-azure-free-account-blob-storageJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?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 LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'. Not in the always-free list. unit GB; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Internet egress: 'First 100 GB/Month | Free' from every source continent, for all Azure customers, in perpetuity (not part of the 12-month offer). free allowance: 100 GB per month |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, rest, rclone s3 |
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| Tooling | Azure Blob REST API; rclone 'azureblob' backend; azcopy; SAS tokens/public containers for anonymous reads. |
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| Composes with | One free account per customer, and the 5 GB ends at month 12 while the storage keeps running and starts billing — a negative multiplier unless torn down. $200 credit is 30 days. |
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| Reliability | Stable while it lasts; the failure mode is silent conversion to pay-as-you-go at month 12 with data still resident. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'. Not in the always-free list.","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