Learning - subscriptions to buy?

Question

Hello, been a long time since i posted on this forum. I am looking for advice /assistance with learning MS products like the way back in the day when a IT person would have a tech net subscription to test software for free 180 days. i want to delve back into this realm with server software, Azure and other things of the MS world, what would you recoememend. I want to play in a lab environment as I do not have the resources hardware wise to do so like a server and rack mount stuff.

Answer 1

Hey Jeff, welcome back!
Just login to Azure and start looking around.
Once you find something that requires a subscription you’ll be prompted to create one.
This will require you to pull out a credit card so that your new subscription can be charged for those additional services.
I have a couple of Azure certifications and I can tell you it didn’t cost me much more than $6 per month to use Azure.
However if you choose to start powering up servers and using some of the other high-resource features the price can go much higher, so be careful.
In the cost and billing section you can set a budget limit, so I suggest setting it to $5 so you get a notification when you exceed that threshold.
Good luck!