Azure subscriptions

- [Instructor] In order to use Azure … you must first purchase an Azure subscription. … And we'll be talking about the purchasing … options in an upcoming lesson. … Once you have a subscription resources … can then be created and managed, et cetera. … Your Azure subscription links directly … to Azure Active Directory for authentication … and authorization and remember, … authentication is proving you are … who you are and authorization is … the rights to access specific resources. … And you're not limited to one azure subscription. … You can have multiple subscriptions to one account holder. … There are some subscription options … that you can choose from. … There is the Pay-As-You-Go service, … which is billed monthly to a credit card, … there is also a free account. … The free account will give you … 12 months of access to Azure's most popular services, … with limitations of course, plus a … $260 credit for one month. … That way you can test out a service, … plus access to over 25 free services. …