How do I check if my Azure subscription is free?

Question

Azure says that I already have a subscription.. I have not yet used any services. How do I check to see if my subscription is free?

Answer 1

Hi, @Larry Eisenberg

If you have signed up for a free subscription, you can check your free service usage as follows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/check-free-service-usage

If you cannot confirm the usage status, you cannot use the free service.

You can also check the grid of free services as follows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/avoid-charges-free-account

Answer 2

It's very confusing bc I just created an Azure trial account, which gives you $200 credit for 30 days.

I then created a subscription, which I believe to be pay-as-you-go (which would eat up money from the $200 credits).

I then created a Databricks workspace, and I picked the paid subscription, which is not free (and I didn't select Free DB trial either under , which doesn't let you do anything useful at all, I picked Premium).

But it's very frustrating when it still will not let me create a cluster with more than 4 cores. It says I have a max of 4 cores. This is so frustrating for a person trying to learn this new tech.

Oops, I just found that it's the policy that matters. I was trying to create one that would let me pick 1 driver and 1 worker but even after going pay-as-you-go it didn't let me at all. If I pick the personal compute then it lets me create a cluster with one driver and no workers.