Overview
This document specifies some of the most common Bluebook limits. Note that this does not currently cover all Bluebook features. Over time, these limits will be expanded and updated to cover more of the platform.
Note:
If you want to raise the limit above the Default Limit, you can open an online customer support request at no charge. The limits cannot be raised above the Maximum Limit value in the tables below. If there is no Maximum Limit column, then the specified resource does not have adjustable limits.
Subscription Limits
| Resource |
Default Limit |
Maximum Limit |
| Users per subscription |
3 for Personal; 5 for Standard |
1000 |
| Books per subscription |
1 |
1 |
| Storage accounts per subscription |
1 |
1 |
Storage Service Limits
| Resource |
Default Limit |
| GB per storage account |
5GB |
| Max number of blob containers, blobs, file shares, tables, queues, entities, or messages per storage account |
Only limit is the 5GB storage account capacity |
| Max size of a file share |
50MB |
| Max size of a file in a file share |
1MB |
| Max number of files in a file share |
Only limit is the 50MB total capacity of the file share |
| Total Request Rate (assuming 1KB object size) per storage account |
Up to 20,000 IOPS, entities per second, or messages per second |
| Target throughput for single blob or file share |
Up to 60 MB per second |
| Max ingress1 per storage account |
5 Gbps if GRS/ZRS2 enabled, 10 Gbps for LRS |
| Max egress1 per storage account |
10 Gbps if RA-GRS/GRS/ZRS2 enabled, 15 Gbps for LRS |
1Ingress refers to all data (requests) being sent to a storage account. Egress refers to all data (responses) being received from a storage account.
2Storage replication options include:
- RA-GRS: Read-access geo-redundant storage. If RA-GRS is enabled, egress targets for the secondary location are identical to those for the primary location.
- GRS: Geo-redundant storage.
- ZRS: Zone-redundant storage. Available only for block blobs.
- LRS: Locally redundant storage.
DocumentDB Limits
| Entity |
Quota (Standard Offer) |
| Maximum document storage per subscription account |
5GB (or higher by request) |
| Provisioned document storage / collection |
1.75GB (or higher by request) |
| Maximum Request Units / second per collection |
250,000 RU/s (or higher by request) |
| Maximum request size of document |
512KB |
| Maximum execution time for stored procedure and trigger |
5 seconds |
Backup Limits
| Limit identifier |
Default Limit |
| Size of a data source for data stored in vault storage |
50 GB max |
| Number of times backup can be scheduled per day |
2 per day |