Azure may not be the cheapest option when deploying small personal projects to the cloud, but for businesses with many different applications, it's highly competitive in comparison with the other major cloud hosting providers. We've only scratched the surface of what you can do with the Azure portal, so I strongly encourage you to make the most of the free 30-day trial and make use of as many different resources as you can.
We started out by getting to grips with the concepts of Azure subscriptions, resources, and resource groups. Once familiar with those, we started to deploy the resources we needed for our application, including a single resource group, a database server, a SQL database, an app service plan, and an app service. We then made some changes to the application itself in order to prepare it for deployment into Azure. The main change we needed to...