From hereafter, we will be dealing directly with the Azure platform. While the current section will deal with registration, the next one will be a practical approach to Machine Learning Studio. Although I could do all of this without being charged a single penny, you could be if either the rules changed or you missed something.
If you are not confident about signing in and toying around Azure, feel free to just read the next steps and not put them into practice. We won't deal with big data and or heavy computation, so even for the full price, what this chapter will be teaching is unlikely to be expensive. On the other hand, mistakes do happen, and cloud mistakes can turn out to be uneconomical.
If you never used Azure before, that is great news. New users qualify to the free-tier usage. The free tier is not appropriate for large-scale production, but might...