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Finding better Azure subscription for Azure services to Test

sagar 20 Reputation points
2023-01-13T05:36:15.92+00:00

Hi,

Our Client requested us to develop and migrate App to Azure, for which we need to explore Azure services + Test etc. may be for 6 months (4-5 team members).

I can see below options of subscription for this, so please suggest which one is best for this scenario:

  1. Azure sponsorship (Please guide us how to get pass codes of around 1000$ for 6-12 months)
  2. Free account (but valid for 1 month only)
  3. Pay-as-you-go (this will increase resources on monitoring/provisioning/de-provisioning services and client thrust on migrating if cost goes beyond limitations. Thanks
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  1. Bjoern Peters 8,921 Reputation points
    2023-01-13T11:30:18.8+00:00

    Hi Sagar

    as you spoke of a client... I suggest you are a employee of (some kind of) a professional development company.

    I would expect that either the customer provides you with an appropriate environment in Azure, or "you" as the service provider have an appropriate environment.

    to your questions:

    to 1.) you have to get in contact with your account manager (MSFT) and tell him about your project, if it is eligible for a sponsorship, he will provide you the correct steps how to get it.

    to 2.) not an option for professional development

    to 3.) from my pov: the only option for a professional app development company to run their test/dev environment.

    I hope my answer is helpful to you,

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  1. Stefano Demiliani 166 Reputation points MVP
    2023-01-13T13:26:04.23+00:00

    Option 1 is normally not available for these types of activities.

    I agree that option 3 should be the way to go.

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