Azure Account Setup

In this lesson, we’ll see how to set up an Azure account and create a resource step by step.:

Creating an Azure account

To create an account, go to the Azure website. To use the service for free, click the “Start free” button. If you want to pay for the service, then click the “Pay as you go” link.

Note: For this course, we’ll use only features available in the free service. You don’t need to purchase the paid option to complete this course.

After selecting one of the above options, sign in to your Microsoft account. Next, add the personal and payment details of your Azure account. The page will look like the following:

Creating a resource

After creating an account, go to the Azure portal and click the “Otherwise, see All services” link to see all services offered by Microsoft Azure.

To begin creating a computer vision resource, select the “Computer Vision” service highlighted below:

Now, we’ll create a new resource. Click the “Create” button to start.

For the purposes of this course, fill the form as follows:

• Subscription: Azure subscription 1.
• Resource group: Create a group by clicking the “Create new” button, and name it “MSCV”.
• Region: East US region.
• Name: MSCV2.
• Pricing tier: Free F0 (20 calls per minute, 5k calls per month).

After completing the form, click the “Review + create” button at the bottom left.

Now, we’ll be asked to review the options that we selected. Once you’ve reviewed the options that you chose, click the “Create” button to complete the form.

After completing the form, we’ll see the page given below. The deployment will take a few seconds.

After the successful deployment, we’ll see the following result. We’re now ready to use the Microsoft Computer Vision API!