{"rid":"compute/azure","card":{"rid":"compute/azure","eid":"microsoft","topic":"compute","slug":"azure","provider":"Azure","url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","domain":"microsoft.com","category":"dev environment","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Quoted: 'Free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services for 12 months (new Azure customers only)', 'Free monthly amounts of 65+ always-free services', 'Access ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"azure","provider":"Azure","url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","category":"dev environment","free_tier":{"stated":"Quoted: 'Free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services for 12 months (new Azure customers only)', 'Free monthly amounts of 65+ always-free services', 'Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit'. The compute line is '750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs'. Other compute lines: '720 vCore hours of 4-vCore or 8-vCore General Purpose instance', '100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage per month', 'Azure Container Registry 1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage'.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"recurring-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"The only compute-bearing student grant from a tier-one cloud found in this class, and the one whose 750-hour monthly VM line would matter most if the identity gate were passable; the GitHub Student Pack routes to this same offer, so the two do not compose but duplicate one gate.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"The 750-hour monthly VM allowance requires an institution-issued email address, and the credit is only USD 100 per 12 months, so the identity gate fails before the quota is ever reachable.","source":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students"}],"limits_note":"The 750-hour monthly VM allowance requires an institution-issued email address, and the credit is only USD 100 per 12 months, so the identity gate fails before the quota is ever reachable.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"The 750-hour monthly VM allowance requires an institution-issued email address, and the credit is only USD 100 per 12 months, so the identity gate fails before the quota is ever reachable.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"a school email address and full-time enrollment at an accredited, degree-granting institution: the FAQ requires that you 'verify your academic status through your organization's email address', the offer page says 'Use your school email to sign up', and there is 'a limit of one account per person'. The record's notes state the vendor page says 'No credit card required' repeatedly, so no card and no hold; debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated, and a Microsoft Q&A answer reports no document-based fallback is guaranteed.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/education-hub/faq","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Eligibility requires: 'You must affirm that you attend an accredited, degree-granting, two-year or four-year educational institution where you're a full-time student' and 'You must verify your academic status through your organization's email address.'"},{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Use your school email to sign up and renew yearly while you're a student'; 'Available only to full-time university students'; '750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs'; '$100 credit, which can be used within 12 months'."},{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"On exhausting the credit: 'If you don't, your subscription and products will be disabled', and 'There is a limit of one account per person'."},{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5606844/how-to-prove-i-am-a-student-without-an-edu-email","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Reported by a Microsoft Q&A respondent: 'Without an email address from your collage/university, you will not be able to sign up for the Azure Student subscription'; the institution email is the standard flow and document-based fallback is not guaranteed."}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"This corrects the compute angle of dossier/storage/azure-for-students.json, which recorded identity_cost as 'card' and verdict qualifies-with-caveat. The vendor page states 'No credit card required' repeatedly, so 'card' is wrong, and the vendor FAQ names the institution email as the verification method, which makes the real constraint institution and the verdict fails-identity. The storage record's reading of the USD 100 as storage capacity is also secondary to the 750-hour VM line, which is the larger compute allowance. Note the allowance is 12 months for new Azure customers and the $100 renews annually only while student status holds.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"student-pack","free_tier_kind":"recurring-credit","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}