Learning Microsoft Azure

Creating a Microsoft Azure account

Before we go into all the different things Microsoft Azure has to offer us, we'll create an account so that we can use the portal to help us explore the services.

Note

There is a new portal (https://portal.azure.com/), which was introduced earlier in 2014 during the Build conference. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this book, it was not complete enough for the majority of the services we're covering, so this book uses the old portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com/), which will continue to be available for some time to come.

If you already have a Microsoft Azure account, continue to the next section; otherwise, click on the Portal tab (https://manage.windowsazure.com/). It will take you to log in using your ...