{"rid":"storage/dvc-remotes-pointed-at-free-backends","card":{"rid":"storage/dvc-remotes-pointed-at-free-backends","eid":"dvc","topic":"storage","slug":"dvc-remotes-pointed-at-free-backends","provider":"DVC remotes (S3 / WebDAV / SSH / HTTP / Drive) pointed at free backends","url":"https://doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage","domain":"dvc.org","category":"registry","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"s3,git,cli","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"N/A — DVC ships no storage; the remote is whatever free store you configure. 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Supports Amazon S3 + S3-compatible (MinIO etc. via `endpointurl`), Azure Blob, GCS, Google Drive, Aliyun OSS, SSH/SFTP, HDFS/WebHDFS, HTTP, WebDAV.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Inherited. The HTTP remote is read-only and can sit behind any CDN, which is the only path where DVC itself doesn't add egress cost.","metered":false},"interface":["s3","git","cli"],"interface_detail":"s3","tooling":"`dvc` CLI + dvcfilesystem (fsspec). `dvc remote add s3://bucket && dvc remote modify myremote endpointurl https://s3.hf.co/<ns>` works. 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Supports Amazon S3 + S3-compatible (MinIO etc. via `endpointurl`), Azure Blob, GCS, Google Drive, Aliyun OSS, SSH/SFTP, HDFS/WebHDFS, HTTP, WebDAV.","extras":{},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.identity_cost.detail","defaulted"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}