Signing Up With Azure

Let’s create and set up a free subscription Azure account and learn to manage it.

Creating an Azure account

In the previous lesson, we learned how to create a Microsoft account. Every user who has a Microsoft account can sign up for an Azure account. For their first Azure account, everyone gets a free $200 credit for the first month. Popular services like Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Blob Storage are free for 12 months. After one month, it’s a pay-as-you-go model.

Students (without credit cards) get a free $100 credit for the first month (credit cards are not involved).

Go to the Azure account page.

Click “Free Account” and complete the profile with your name and location details. Add your address, country, and pin code details. Add all required particulars.

Your account will need ...