AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program (revisit) - uncapped, 2 years, but the signatory must be an organisation
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-programsays card, storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-program-uncapped-2-years-but-t says institution - verdict:
storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-programsays qualifies, storage/aws-open-data-sponsorship-program-uncapped-2-years-but-t says fails-identity
- Free allowance
- No published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No published byte limit; AWS pays S3 storage plus egress and cross-region fees for the approved dataset, in a dedicated Program Account joined to AWS's billing organisation. 2-year term from the Effective Date, auto-terminates, extendable only if AWS offers. Rolling review, decision generally within two weeks. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Requirements: permissive licence only (CC BY-NC and BY-ND barred), cloud-optimised formats, docs, a tutorial notebook, a Registry YAML PR, demonstrated community demand, and the account must run no other AWS services. 90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination. |
| Binding | none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds |
| Identity | institution institution |
| Egress | Fully covered, including cross-region data fees - the only candidate in this slot with genuinely uncapped free egress at any volume. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | 90-day wind-down with data retrieval after termination. (90 days) |
| Interface | s3, rclone, cli part of the text of Free tier, above |
| Tooling | Plain S3: aws-cli, boto3, s3fs, rclone 's3'; CloudFormation template from the onboarding handbook creates the public-read bucket with intelligent tiering and logging. |
| Composes with | Per dataset, per dedicated account; the application form itself asks only for 'Name of your institution', dataset size and growth rate in GB/year - there is no upper bound field. Multiply by separate applications for separate datasets. |
| Reliability | Production S3, no reliability concerns. Failure mode is review + the 2-year clock: a dataset that stops growing does not get renewed and the bill reverts to you. |
Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | aws.amazon.com/opendata/faqs/ | not published |
| 2026-10-21 | application.opendata.aws/ | the live form's fields: 'Name of your institution', 'Website of your institution', 'Size of dataset e.g. 100GB', 'Growth rate of dataset in GB per year' |
| 2026-10-21 | aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/terms/ | 'The term of your Program participation will be 2 years from the Effective Date, at which point it will automatically terminate'; wind-down 'no fewer than 90 days' |
| 2026-10-21 | aws.amazon.com/opendata/faqs/ | 'The sponsored account must be used exclusively for storing and distributing the approved Open Data dataset' |
More fields 1
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