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A newcomer package is purchasable once per user. The free trial canno...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":1},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"huawei-cloud-intl-free-trial","provider":"Huawei Cloud (international)","url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","category":"VPS","tier":"Free trial / newcomer package","free_tier":{"stated":"Quoted: 'Free trial is available for each product only once. First come, first served.' A newcomer package is purchasable once per user. The free trial cannot be taken without a payment method: 'A payment method must be specified to purchase Huawei Cloud products and services. Otherwise, you can only view product and service information but cannot purchase them.'","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","read_on":"2026-10-24"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"one newcomer package per user: 'Each new user can purchase only one newcomer package'"},"retention":{"stated":"Not stated on the free-packages page read today. The page states that if the account cannot be reached, Huawei 'has the right to freeze your resources and terminate the service. If the service is terminated, data will be deleted and cannot be restored.'"},"egress":{"terms":"not published on the free-trial page read today","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"source_url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/"},"interface":["ssh","rest"],"interface_detail":"Ordinary ECS instances with SSH and a console; the trial page itself does not name a shape","tooling":"any SSH client; the vendor console and API","chaining":"Would be a mainland-Chinese-hyperscaler free trial outside the mainland, but the card authorisation makes it the exact pattern the operator is complaining about.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a payment method, and a card authorisation, before any free trial can be purchased","source":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"one newcomer package per person, deduplicated on ID number, passport number, mobile number, device and IP","source":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"free trials are not available in the Brazil, Peru and Chile regions, where payment methods cannot be specified","source":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/"}],"binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The card is the gate and it is checked with an authorisation charge, so the free trial is unreachable without a card that can absorb a temporary debit.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card required before any trial: 'A payment method must be specified to purchase Huawei Cloud products and services.' The authorisation is USD 1: quoted 'When you add a credit card, Huawei Cloud makes an authorization charge of $1 USD from your card to verify that the card is valid. This amount will be automatically refunded to your card shortly after your account is activated'. Refund timing 'depends on your card issuing bank'. the vendor's own text says 'credit card'.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The payment-method requirement and the USD 1 authorisation are quoted from Huawei Cloud's own free-trials page and billing user guide read today. The machine shape and the trial duration are not stated on the free-packages page, so they are recorded as unpublished rather than guessed.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Why Do I Have to Specify a Payment Method? A payment method must be specified to purchase Huawei Cloud products and services. Otherwise, you can only view product and service information but cannot purchase them.'"},{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Huawei Cloud will require an authorization deposit to verify that your credit card is valid. This authorization deposit is returned to your credit card at a later stage.'"},{"url":"https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/usermanual-billing/en-us_topic_0130173784.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'When you add a credit card, Huawei Cloud makes an authorization charge of $1 USD from your card to verify that the card is valid. This amount will be automatically refunded to your card shortly after your account is activated, but the time this takes depends on your card issuing bank.'"},{"url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Each new user can purchase only one newcomer package.' and the same-user rules naming 'ID number, passport number, driver's license ID' and 'the same mobile number, device, or IP address'"},{"url":"https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/account_faq/faq_id_0078.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'If you have an expenditure quota, voucher, or test coupon, or if you are a reseller customer associated with a partner, you do not need to add a credit card.' This is the only stated escape from the card, and it requires a voucher the client does not hold"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:26:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"The USD 1 authorisation is small, not USD 50, so it is a weaker obstacle than the corpus's other examples, but it is still a card. Two things are unverified: the shape of the free ECS instance and the trial duration, neither of which the free-packages page states. The escape route the vendor itself documents is a voucher or expenditure quota, which the client cannot obtain. Not previously in the corpus as an international trial record; `huawei-cloud` records the CNY-denominated trial edition and `alibaba-cloud-tencent` records the domestic 实名认证 wall.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"disk_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"note":"not published on the free-packages page read today"},"billing_model":"free","term":"not stated on the page read today","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"no charge for the trial itself; the cost is a USD 1 authorisation that is refunded on a bank-dependent schedule","free_tier_kind":"trial","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"an ECS security group; not stated on the trial page","static_ip":null,"ipv6":null,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"trial length not published on the page read"},"signup_url":"https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/activity/free_packages/","credit_usd":null,"credit_hours_at_shape":null,"card_hold_usd":1,"payment_methods":"credit card with an authorisation charge; vouchers and expenditure quotas bypass the card"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/huawei-cloud-intl-free-trial","other":"compute/huawei-flexus-l","field":"verdict","a":"fails-identity","b":"paid-only","detail":null}]}