Getting Started with Azure

Learn to sign up for Azure and get familiar with the Azure portal.

In this section, we'll then have a quick look around the Azure portal and understand the services we are going to use to run our app.

Signing up to Azure

If you already have an Azure account, there's never been a better time to sign up and give Azure a try. As of June 2023, you can sign up to Azure and get 12 months of free services.

We'll need a Microsoft account to sign up for Azure, which is free to create if you haven't already got one. You are then required to complete a sign-up form that contains the following personal information:

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