Using Microsoft Azure
To create and run the code from this book, you also need to have an Azure subscription. You can activate Microsoft Azure for free at https://azure.microsoft.com/free, which gives you an amount of about $200 Azure credits that are available for the first 30 days and several services that can be used for free for the time after.
What many developers miss is that if you have a Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription, you also have a free amount of Azure resources every month. You just need to activate this with your Visual Studio subscription: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/.
To create and manage resources, we use the Azure Portal, the Azure CLI, and the Azure Developer CLI. On Windows, you can install them with the following:
winget install Microsoft.AzureCLI winget install Microsoft.Azd
To install these tools on Mac and Linux, check https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli and https://learn.microsoft...
