Creating an Azure subscription
Once you have created your Azure account and logged in, you will see the Welcome to Azure page. You will be informed that you do not have a subscription.
There are different types of subscriptions, each with different constraints and conditions, such as free credit and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Azure services. For our purpose, we will use the Free Trial. If your trial expires, then you can upgrade the subscription to Pay-As-You-Go. For a complete list of Azure subscriptions, please see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-details/.
Before you can create any resources in Azure, you need to create a subscription. Subscriptions in Azure are logical containers, primarily used for billing. Any costs you incur will be assigned to your subscription. It is possible to have multiple subscriptions, but we only need one for our purposes.
As shown in Figure 2.1, the default behavior is to collapse the Azure portal menu. To view...