What are the limits of the free Azure app service offering? What are the quotas?

Microsoft offers a free App Service (web application hosting) for modest needs. This is a great way to get started with cloud services, and if you want to test Azure services, the free service works great. Also, if you've just testing out a small ASP.NET web application, you can easily get started with the free service, and then scale up to the paid offerings.

But, a free service often has its limits, and so does Azure. But, what exactly are those limits? Microsoft has created a nice summary blog post to detail the limits.

In my experience, the free offering usually caps at the outgoing network limits. The current limit is 165 MB per day (24 hours), but you might get a little extra, if previous days have spent less. This is called the Roller Over Quota.

Other quotas are as follows:

• CPU time usage per day: 60 minutes
• CPU time usage per hour: 3 minutes
• Memory usage: 1024 MB
• Outgoing data per day: 165 MB
• File system usage (per application): 1024 MB
• File system usage (per App Service Plan): total 1024 MB for all apps
• Number of free apps: max 10.

For details, check out the blog post.

Hope this helps!