Azure Setup

Setting up an Azure account is straightforward. Just like AWS, there are many services and incentives that Azure offers to attract users in the highly competitive public cloud market. Please check out the https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ page for the latest offerings. At the time of writing, Azure is offering many popular services free for 12 months and 40+ other services as always free:

Figure 2: Azure portal (source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/)

After the account is created, we can see the services available on the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com:

Figure 3: Azure services

Information. The web pages might change by the time you read this chapter. They are generally intuitive navigations changes that are easy to maneuver, even if they look a little different.

Before any service can  be launched, however, we will need to provide a payment method. This is done by adding a subscription service:

Figure 4: Azure subscriptions...