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Not a byte quota — a credit grant usable against 'the complete portfolio of Azure product...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"microsoft-azure-grant-for-nonprofits","provider":"Microsoft Azure grant for nonprofits ($2,000/yr, renews)","url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure","category":"iaas","free_tier":{"stated":"$2,000 (USD) in donated Azure services credits per year, renewable. Not a byte quota — a credit grant usable against 'the complete portfolio of Azure products and cloud services', which includes Blob Storage / Data Lake Storage Gen2 / Azure Files.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/nonprofit/microsoft-for-nonprofits/renew-azure-grant","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"per-object-cap: Blob block blob max ~190.7 TiB","bytes":209676867416883,"source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/nonprofit/microsoft-for-nonprofits/renew-azure-grant","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/nonprofit/microsoft-for-nonprofits/renew-azure-grant","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Azure egress is metered and would eat the credit; this only works as *archive* (rare read) or behind a CDN whose own free tier covers delivery. Archive-tier reads also carry retrieval cost.","metered":true},"interface":["s3-compatible","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"s3","tooling":"Native Azure API, not S3: rclone backend 'azureblob' (Tier 1, chunked, server-side copy), AzCopy, Azure CLI, BlobFuse for POSIX. Azure does not expose an S3-compatible endpoint on Blob Storage.","chaining":"Renews annually at $2,000 ('All Azure Sponsorships renew at $2,000 USD per year'), so it is a recurring grant, not a trial — but the balance is annual, so the multiplier is $2,000 x years x number of verified nonprofit tenants. Renewal must be done manually in the Nonprofit Hub between 30 days before and the expiry date, or usage converts to pay-as-you-go against the stored payment instrument.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"per-object-cap: Blob block blob max ~190.7 TiB","source":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/nonprofit/microsoft-for-nonprofits/renew-azure-grant"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: Blob block blob max ~190.7 TiB, single PUT 5,000 MiB — not the constraint. The constraint is *budget*: the grant is a spend cap, and any per-GB/month rate times 10 TiB must fit inside $2,000/yr. request-rate: standard storage account limits (20,000 IOPS-class). retention: balance expires at the annual renewal date; 'Early consumption of the $2,000 balance does not trigger or permit early renewal'.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: $2,000 (USD) in donated Azure services credits per year, renewable. Not a byte quota — a credit grant usable against 'the","country":null},"reliability_note":"Missing the renewal window silently converts the subscription to pay-as-you-go and starts charging the payment instrument on file — a real cost hazard, not a data-loss hazard.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Leverage $2,000 (USD) Azure services credits per year and access the complete portfolio of Azure products and cloud services'"},{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/nonprofit/microsoft-for-nonprofits/renew-azure-grant","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'All Azure Sponsorships renew at $2,000 USD per year'; renewal window and pay-as-you-go conversion rule"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"unverified: I could not quote a per-GB rate to convert $2,000 into terabytes — azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/ rendered every price cell as '$-' (region/currency gated). Do not treat any TB conversion as verified."}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"$2,000 (USD) in donated Azure services credits per year, renewable. 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