>> You can try Azure for free for 12 months really.
Learn about it in this episode of Azure Tips and Tricks.
If you are new to Azure or if you want
to run an experiment on Azure,
you can use it for free for 12 months.
You can do that by going to this page at this URL.
So what do you get for free?
You can use a lot of services in Azure for free for 12 months.
On top of that, you get $200 to spend in the first 30 days.
You can spend this on services that aren't included in
the free list or if you use
more than the free service limits permit.
There are lots of Azure services that you can always
use for free because they have a free tier.
Included in the free services are 12 cognitive services.
These are services that provide AI as a service.
They come with pre-trained machine learning algorithms
and are packaged as APIs that you can call,
for instance, to detect faces in
images or translate speech in real time.
These are the free services.
You can, for instance, use a Linux VM for free for 750 hours.
You can use these 750 hours within your 12-month window.
This goes for all the free services.
They all have usage quotas,
like you can use 5,000
transactions of the Computer Vision Service, which is a lot.
Here are the rest of the cognitive services.
You can use all of these for free.
Also, these services have free usage tiers.
So you can always use them for free. Isn't that awesome?
There are a lot of them that you can use for free.
This is great for trying things out and for running
small projects in Azure. Let's sign up.
I've already signed in with my Microsoft account,
but you also have to do that or
create a new Microsoft or GitHub account.
I need to go through some steps to sign up.
First, I need to verify by
phone and I'll put in my verification code.
Now, I need to fill in my credit card details.
Don't worry, you won't be charged.
Fill in the rest of my information, and "Next".
Finally, I need to agree to the terms and sign up. That's it.
My free Azure subscription will now be created,
and, there we go.
This is the Azure portal and this is my Azure subscription.
Let's take a look. Here, I can see my costs and usage.
So here, I can see that I have €170,
which is roughly $200 to spend.
Here is the usage of my free services.
Once I start using services,
it'll be reflected here in percentages.
For a virtual machine, for instance,
I can use 700 units of one hour of
the B1s compute tier for a Windows VM.
If I go over that usage,
I will be charged to my free €170 in the first month.
When that credit is spent or when the month is up,
my usage will be blocked.
So you won't automatically be charged.
You need to manually upgrade
your account if you want to spend money.
Let's create a cognitive services just to see what it looks like.
Go here and search for cognitive service.
There it is, "Create".
Now to fill this in,
let's pick a location like this and a pricing tier as zero.
Now, I'll create a new resource group to use.
"Okay", and check this box and that's it. Let's create it.
I'll skip to when it is done,
and here it is.
This is a cognitive service.
You can use this to call any of
the cognitive service APIs like
the face API or the computer vision API.
From here, you can follow a tutorial to get started.
Let me show you something else.
A Web App. This has a free tier that we can use.
Here it is. Let me pick
my resource group and then I can show you the pricing tiers.
Here they are. When I click here,
you can see the free pricing tier.
You can always use this forever,
but catch this that it is less powerful than
paid pricing tiers and that it has less capabilities.
But you can use it to try things out for free.
See here, the basic B1 tier for
Linux Web Apps is also free for the first 30 days.
You can try Azure for free really.
Go and try it out.