Azure subscription, service limits, quotas, and constraints (2017)

Question 1

Default Cores per subscription

Answer 1

20

Question 2

Max Cores per subscription

Answer 2

10,000

Question 3

Co-administrators per subscription

Answer 3

200

Question 4

Max Storage Accounts per subscription

Answer 4

250

Question 5

Default Storage Accounts per subscription

Answer 5

200

Question 6

Default Reserved IPs per subscription

Answer 6

20

Question 7

Max Reserved IPs per subscription

Answer 7

100

Question 8

Max Affinity groups per subscription

Answer 8

256 for Classic, Unlimited for ARM

Question 9

Default Local networks per subscription

Answer 9

10

Question 10

Max Local networks per subscription

Answer 10

500

Question 11

Max Alert rules per subscription

Answer 11

250

Question 12

Max Resource Groups per subscription

Answer 12

800

Question 13

Max Availability Sets per subscription

Answer 13

2,000 per region

Question 14

Maximum number of VMs in a scale set

Answer 14

1000

Question 15

Maximum number of scale sets in a region

Answer 15

2000

Question 16

ExpressRoute circuits per subscription

Answer 16

10

Question 17

Default DNS Zones per subscription

Answer 17

100

Question 18

Default DNS Record sets per zone

Answer 18

5000

Question 19

DNS Records per record set

Answer 19

20

Question 20

Number of storage accounts per subscription

Answer 20

200

Question 21

Max storage account capacity

Answer 21

500 TB

Question 22

Max size of a page blob

Answer 22

8TB

Question 23

Max size of a file share

Answer 23

5TB

Question 24

Max size of a file in a file share

Answer 24

1TB

Question 25

Max IOPS per share

Answer 25

1000

Question 26

Max number of stored access policies per container, file share, table, or queue

Answer 26

5

Question 27

Max IOPS for Standard Storage Account

Answer 27

20,000

Question 28

Max number of Disks for Basic Tier VM in a Storage Account?

Answer 28

66 (20,000/300 IOPS per disk)

Question 29

Max number of Disks for Standard Tier VM in a Storage Account?

Answer 29

40 (20,000/500 IOPS per disk)

Question 30

Default Number of vaults per subscription

Answer 30

25

Question 31

Default Number of servers per Azure vault

Answer 31

250

Question 32

Azure Redis Cache Limit

Answer 32

530GB

Question 33

Max SQLaaS DB size for Basic Tier

Answer 33

2GB

Question 34

Max SQLaaS DB size for Standard Tier

Answer 34

250GB

Question 35

Max SQLaaS DB size for Premium Tier

Answer 35

500/4TB depending on region

Question 36

Database backup retention period for Basic SQLaaS DB

Answer 36

7 days

Question 37

Database backup retention period for Standard SQLaaS DB

Answer 37

35 Days (use to be ?)

Question 38

Database backup retention period for Premium SQLaaS DB

Answer 38

35 Days