Opening a free account with Microsoft Azure
In the upcoming chapters, we will be using the services you have just been reading about to build a data lake using the lakehouse architecture. Therefore, it is time to open a free Azure account that gives you 12 months of free services, plus a one-time $260 credit. Please note that not all – but most – services are free. To open a free account and browse through the free services, please visit the following link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/free/.
Here is some valuable advice:
- It is always a good idea to remove the compute resources once you've used them.
- You get 5 GB of locally redundant data (LRS) data for free. There is no need to remove data that's stored during future exercises since we will not be exceeding this limit.
- While using the free services in Azure, please keep a strict eye on your billing using the following link: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Billing/BillingMenuBlade...
