Windows Azure – How Do I: Sign-up a free 3-months Trial Account

Posted: Jan 15, 2012 at 12:19 PM
By: Sanjay Jain
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In this "Free Trial Acount" episode of How DO I series let's see how to sign up a free 3-months trial account of Windows Azure.

Key Points:

Free for 3-months
Does require a Credit Card but comes with a default spending limit of $0
Monthly allocation includes 750 Small Compute Hours, 1GB Web Edition of SQL Azure, 20GB storage with 50K transactions, Unlimited inbound and 20GB Outbound bandwidth.

Additional Resources:

3-Months Free Trial
Excellent Blog Post by my Colleague Jim O'Neil
Windows Azure Spending Limits
Getting Started with Windows Azure (Keynote by Scott Guthrie on 12/13/2011)

Enjoy the show.

Sanjay Jain
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

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