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Cloud Services Storage Quotas

To moderate the rate of growth of Cornell's overall cloud storage data requirements, and to maintain fiscal sustainability, Cornell maintains a data cap on the free storage services offered to students, faculty, and staff. 

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On February 19, 2024 storage caps were placed on Box and Microsoft 365 cloud storage services. This reflects similar limits added to Cornell Google Workspace accounts in 2022.

Individual Cloud Storage

We encourage you to practice good data management and remove files you no longer need. 

Current data limits for individual cloud storage (for Cornell-related work)
Service Default Request More
Box* 25 GB Box Storage
Google* 15 GB Google Storage
Microsoft OneDrive* 25 GB OneDrive Storage

*Accounts above the default storage limit will have a quota added that will be above the amount of storage at that time. This prevents inconvenient, and stressful, interruption to day-to-day operations.

Alumni should refer to this information about storage changes.

Departmental Cloud Storage

We encourage you to practice good data management and remove files you no longer need. 

Current data limits for departmental cloud storage
Service Default Request More
Box Departmental Folders** 50 GB Box Storage
Google Shared Drive 15 GB Google Storage
Microsoft Sharepoint/Teams** 50 GB SharePoint Storage

**Departmental folders that have more than 50 GB of data stored will see a storage limit higher than 50 GB. 

For more information about changes to storage at Cornell, see the Strategic Storage Initiative website.

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