Azure subscription types

To create your first Azure subscription, you need a few things. The first thing is to provide an email address that needs to be either a Microsoft Live account or an Office 365 account. You need to provide a phone number. Finally, you need to provide credit or debit card information along with a billing address. Credit card information is needed even for free subscriptions because Microsoft uses it to verify your identity.

When talking about Azure subscriptions, we can divide them into three different types:

  • Sponsored subscriptions
  • Pay as you go
  • Enterprise subscriptions

There are a few different sponsored subscriptions in Azure: trial, Azure pass, MSDN subscription, Azure sponsorship, and so on. What all of them ...

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