{"rid":"compute/sakura-cloud-certification","card":{"rid":"compute/sakura-cloud-certification","eid":"sakura","topic":"compute","slug":"sakura-cloud-certification","provider":"Sakura Cloud certification","url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","domain":"sakura.ad.jp","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"country-phone","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":"jp","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":8,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A one-month free Sakura Cloud learning environment, about 50 applicants a month, with no card: 'クレジットカードの登録は不要で、さくらインターネットの会員IDをお持ちであれば、どなたでも申し込みが可能です' (no c...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"sakura-cloud-certification","provider":"Sakura Cloud certification","url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A one-month free Sakura Cloud learning environment, about 50 applicants a month, with no card: 'クレジットカードの登録は不要で、さくらインターネットの会員IDをお持ちであれば、どなたでも申し込みが可能です' (no credit card registration is required, and anyone with a Sakura Internet member ID can apply), '毎月約50名を対象に、「さくらのクラウド」の学習用環境を1か月間無償で提供します' (about 50 people a month get the learning environment free for one month). Conditions: '個人のお客さま' (individual customers), a member ID, and '最新のシラバスに基づく「さくらのクラウド検定」の合格を目指して学習している方' (someone studying to pass the Sakura Cloud certification).","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"recurring-trial"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"If the door were open this would be the cheapest way into a Japanese region with no card at all, and a one-month window is enough to move a dataset out of it, but the phone gate means it composes with nothing here.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"Two gates, and the second is the one that closes: about 50 slots a month is a lottery, and the account behind it needs a Japanese postal address and a Japanese phone that answers a voice call, because Sakura Cloud requires phone verification before any resource can be created.","source":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/"}],"limits_note":"Two gates, and the second is the one that closes: about 50 slots a month is a lottery, and the account behind it needs a Japanese postal address and a Japanese phone that answers a voice call, because Sakura Cloud requires phone verification before any resource can be created.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"Two gates, and the second is the one that closes: about 50 slots a month is a lottery, and the account behind it needs a Japanese postal address and a Japanese phone that answers a voice call, because Sakura Cloud requires phone verification before any resource can be created.","identity_cost":{"kind":"country-phone","detail":"a Sakura Internet member ID plus a Japanese address and a Japanese phone number that answers a voice call: the help page states services are premised on use inside Japan and asks for a Japanese address and phone, and the signup manual states 'phone verification is mandatory before starting to use Sakura Cloud', by voice call to the registered number. No card is required for this campaign ('no credit card registration is required') and no hold arises; the coupon route is separate and does start billing on a registered card once the coupon reaches zero. Debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated.","country":"jp"},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2025/11/25/1968222073/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' ID ' and ' 50 1 ', plus the list and ' ' (some features restricted and a cap on resource creation), quoted"},{"url":"https://help.sakura.ad.jp/purpose_beginner/2545/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"member registration asks for , , and , and states ' ' (services are premised on use inside Japan; register a Japanese address and phone; ask the customer centre by email for a foreign number), quoted"},{"url":"https://manual.sakura.ad.jp/cloud/payment/signup.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' ' (phone verification is mandatory before starting to use Sakura Cloud), with a voice call to the registered number, quoted"},{"url":"https://faq.sakura.ad.jp/s/article/000001350","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' ' (without phone verification, creation of new resources is restricted), quoted"},{"url":"https://cloud.sakura.ad.jp/faq/free-trial/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' ' (we do not offer a free trial; use coupons instead), quoted"},{"url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/certification/basic/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' 2026 3 ' (coupon distribution under this scheme ended with the third 2026 exam), and the coupon was '50,000 ' for the basic exam and '10,000 ' for the update exam, with a 12-month free window once applied, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.sakura.ad.jp/corporate/information/newsreleases/2026/04/08/1968224250/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' 500 25,000 ' (JPY 25,000 coupon codes for the first 500 applicants), applyable 2026-04-08 to 2026-09-30, so that campaign has also closed, quoted"},{"url":"https://manual.sakura.ad.jp/cloud/payment/coupon.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"' 0 ' (billing on the registered credit card starts when the coupon balance reaches zero), so a coupon requires a card on file, quoted"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The most interesting near-miss in the Japanese lane: the vendor removed the card requirement and opened it to anyone including minors, then left a Japanese address and voice verification in place, which is the pattern exists to find. Contrast with the neighbouring record: the same company's student ambassador program pays JPY 100,000 a month but needs school enrollment.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional","free_tier_kind":"recurring-trial","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0},"restored_original_quote":"restored 2026-10-22: the first promotion stripped non-Latin characters from this sentence, leaving empty quotation marks. 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