Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
- Free allowance
- No sandbox-specific free allowance is published; sandbox compute bills through the same per-second Container Apps meters, whose first 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 360,000 GiB-seconds a month are free
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedcreating or managing a sandbox requires the Container Apps SandboxGroup Data Owner role assignment
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | no sandbox-specific free allowance is published; sandbox compute bills through the same per-second Container Apps meters, whose first 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 360,000 GiB-seconds a month are free unit seconds; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the sandboxes overview was read on 2026-10-22. It establishes the lifecycle and the stop-billing behaviour and does not publish a free allowance, so the requirement below is the Container Apps consumption allowance the same vendor prices on its pricing page, not a sandbox-specific grant |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/sandboxes-ove | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/sandboxes-ove | 'Sandboxes are provisioned from prewarmed pools for near-instant availability' and 'You pay no CPU or memory fees when sandboxes are stopped' and 'Suspend and resume: Snapshot full state including memory and disk, and resume later with sub-second restore times', quoted |
More fields 13
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