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open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/about/access-policyAcademicstorage/eosc-eu-node-50-gb-personal-500-gb-group-file-storage-peJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Access-policy table: File Storage (Personal) = 50 GB for Collaborator and Investigator; File Storage (Group) = 500 GB for Investigator only.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?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 | Access-policy table: File Storage (Personal) = 50 GB for Collaborator and Investigator; File Storage (Group) = 500 GB for Investigator only. Investigator also gets 'File Transfer 1TB/month'. Credits: Collaborator 1,000; Investigator '2,000 (individual) / 6,000 (group)', renewed automatically every three months and explicitly not top-up-able. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Not metered; the node is EC-procured infrastructure. The binding constraint is the monthly 1 TB transfer allowance, which is the only hard number in the policy. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | Retention: credits 'cannot be transferred to another person or carried over between periods' and are 'automatically renewed every three months'; services are ordered for a fixed period and refunded pro rata if released, so nothing here is permanent |
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| Interface | s3, rest rest |
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| Tooling | EOSC EU Node User Space web UI plus credit-metered service orders; no documented S3 endpoint. Treat as API-less until probed by an account holder. |
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| Composes with | The chaining hook is wallets, not accounts: 'When you create a group, a separate Group Wallet will automatically be generated. This wallet is independent of your personal wallet and comes pre-allocated with additional credits.' Investigator groups also carry the 500 GB group file storage. Many groups = many 500 GB pools, and the group storage is separate from the 50 GB personal pool. |
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| Reliability | Credits are not top-up-able ('additional ones will not be provided to you') and do not carry over — a storage-heavy month silently stops you until the next quarter. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/about/access-policy | 'File Storage (Personal) ... 50GB', 'File Storage (Group) ... 500GB', 'File Transfer ... 1TB/month', 'Credits ... 2,000 (individual) / 6,000 (group)' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.eosc.athenarc.gr/support/frequently-asked-questions/user | paid 'free of charge (at the point of use) by the European Commission', 'automatically renewed every three months', 'additional ones will not be provided to you', 'When you create a group, a separate Group Wallet will automatically be generated ... pre-allocated with additional credits' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Access-policy table: File Storage (Personal) = 50 GB for Collaborator and Investigator; File Storage (Group) = 500 GB for Investigator only. Investigator also gets 'File Transfer 1TB/month'. Credits: Collaborator 1,000; Investigator '2,000 (individual) / 6,000 (group)', renewed automatically every three months and explicitly not top-up-able.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- 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
open-science-cloud.ec.europa.eu/about/access-policystorage/eosc-eu-node-as-bulk-storageJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- 50 GB personal / 500 GB group, 1 TB/month transfer, credits that do not roll over and cannot be topped up.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- 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 | 50 GB personal / 500 GB group, 1 TB/month transfer, credits that do not roll over and cannot be topped up. Reported as a candidate above for… 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 1
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "50 GB personal / 500 GB group, 1 TB/month transfer, credits that do not roll over and cannot be topped up. Reported as a candidate above for…","retry_when": null,"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