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Quotas are documented for compute, jobs, pipelines, model serving and apps — never for bytes.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Not addressed in the Free Edition docs. Outbound internet is 'restricted to a limited set of trusted domains', which throttles external egress to non-approved hosts.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Unity Catalog volumes via SQL (`CREATE CATALOG ...`) or the Databricks CLI / REST API; no rclone backend. File access requires serverless, Unity-Catalog-enabled compute — 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute'.","chaining":"One workspace per signup; the docs do not cap workspaces. Storage is uncapped in the docs but *only reachable through compute*, so the real multiplier is compute quota resets ('your workspace's compute resources will be shut down and unavailable for the rest of the day' on quota exhaustion; data is retained).","limits":[],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: not documented for default storage — unverified. request-rate: per-account serverless quotas ('Max of 5 concurrent job tasks per account', one SQL warehouse capped at 2X-Small) — this is the binding constraint and it is compute, not storage. retention: 'While your compute will be unavailable, your data and settings will not be deleted'; deleting a managed table/volume keeps files 'to allow for a 7-day recovery window' then purges within 48 hours.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: thout a documented quota but also without a storage-native API — you cannot `PUT` arbitrary bytes without spinning compute, and compute is throttled to 'the rest of the day'. 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Realistically a place to park tabular artefacts, not a 20 TiB blob archive.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Your new workspace includes serverless compute and default storage'"},{"url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/storage/default-storage","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Default storage is a fully managed object storage platform'; 'All interactions with default storage require serverless, Unity Catalog-enabled compute'"},{"url":"https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"(last updated 2026-10-18) — quota table covers compute/jobs/pipelines/serving only; 'Custom workspace storage locations' unsupported"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations -> 200 (read live 2026-10-21)"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"No published byte quota. 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