Microsoft Agents Academy

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Microsoft Agents Academy Compute

trialemailno cardphoneDwrite-gated

microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/events/hackathon/OFFICIAL_ · cloud VM · compute/microsoft-agents-academy · JSON · compare

Free tier	The official rules award no cloud credit. The whole prize pool, quoted: 'The total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of all prizes: $12,000.00 USD', paid as store credit, quoted: 'One (1) First Prize. Each winner will receive: A Microsoft Store Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $1,500.00 USD.', 'One (1) Second Prize ... $1,000.00 USD', 'One (1) Third Prize ... $500.00 USD', across three tracks. unit none; metered on wall-clock; prize
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email The record's limits field says the work needs Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for, which implies a billing account, but no evidence row states a card requirement, a hold, a phone number or an ID document: unknown.
Limits	write-gated the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for. source the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for.
Binding	write-gated the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Nil as compute: a store gift card does not buy an instance. The useful composition is the reverse, and it is a warning: the entry requires 'at least one (1) of the following Microsoft products and services', including 'Azure OpenAI Service', so the entrant funds the inference before any prize exists.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A refutation of a premise brief, which names 'Microsoft and AWS hackathon credits' as a thing to find. On this page there are none: the prize is gift cards and the platform cost sits with the entrant. Two explanations were considered: Microsoft shifted hackathon rewards from Azure credit to store credit, or this particular contest is a curriculum-marketing event rather than a compute programme. The entry requirements quote the Agent Academy curriculum in three of the four criteria, which supports the second. The AWS half of the brief's premise is separately recorded: the AWS and NVIDIA hackathon requires 'teams of enterprise professionals' for its $100 credit, which is a fails-identity result. What would change this record is a Microsoft hackathon whose rules include an Azure credit line; none was found in one search.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/events/hackathon/OFFICIAL_	'The total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of all prizes: $12,000.00 USD'; 'A Microsoft Store Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $1,500.00 USD'; 'To enter, you must be eighteen (18) years of age or older'; 'Void in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Region of Crimea, Russia'; 'Entry Period ... May 12, 2026 ... June 2, 2026'; page 200

More fields (1)

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   "gpu_count": null
  }
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}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated