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azure blob storage 'always free' 5 gb
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- Free allowance
- 5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page. Egress is metered at $0.087/GB after the first 100 GB/month, which alone kills… unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Binding | none the quota is real and unreachable: identity is the binding constraint, and it is not one of the six limits kinds |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
{
"dead_end": {
"failure_class": "identity",
"why": "5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page. Egress is metered at $0.087/GB after the first 100 GB/month, which alone kills…",
"retry_when": "if the registration gate opens to a foreign individual",
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
}Unknown values 7
$.chaining the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.egress.terms the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.notes the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.per_object_cap.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.retention.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at$.tooling the record was rejected before this field was looked at