{"id":3545,"date":"2017-10-20T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:03:20","slug":"q3s9h3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-q3s9h3\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiment with Azure for FREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the things Azure can do, it\u2019s hard to know where to start answering these important questions. But there\u2019s a really easy way to explore the potential of Azure completely free and at your own pace: by creating a free Azure account. In fact, if you\u2019re a Visual Studio subscriber either on your own or through your employer you effectively have one already. And even if you\u2019re not a Visual Studio subscriber you too can start checking out Azure on your own schedule at your own pace completely free right now (details at bottom of page). And when I say \u201cfree\u201d I don\u2019t mean \u201cfree until you do anything\u201d free; there are 29 free services you can spin up and play with and throw away at your whim and there\u2019s something in there for everyone:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the things Azure can do, it\u2019s hard to know where to start answering these important questions. But there\u2019s a really easy way to explore the potential of Azure completely free and at your own pace: by creating a free Azure account. In fact, if you\u2019re a Visual Studio subscriber either on your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>With all the things Azure can do, it\u2019s hard to know where to start answering these important questions. But there\u2019s a really easy way to explore the potential of Azure completely free and at your own pace: by creating a free Azure account. In fact, if you\u2019re a Visual Studio subscriber either on your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}