learn azure subscription types

in this lecture Understand Azure subscriptions and subscription types.
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In order to take advantage of Azure's cloud-based services, you must have a subscription. It serves as a single billing unit for Azure resources in that services used in Azure are billed to a subscription. An Azure subscription is linked to a single account, the one that was used to create the subscription and is used for billing purposes. Within the subscription, resources can be provisioned as instances of the many Azure products and services.

There are three main types of subscriptions available, free, pay-as-you-go, and member offers. The free account is a subscription that provides unlimited access to Azure resources with a $200 credit that can be applied to paid products. At the end of the trial period, any Azure services created with the subscription are disabled, unless the subscription is upgraded to a paid subscription. Free accounts require a credit card, used for identification purposes only. You can apply for a free account at this URL (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/).

The pay-as-you-go subscription (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/off...) lets you pay for the services and resources that you use on a monthly basis. A credit or debit card must be attached to the account and billing for this account is on a monthly basis. Free Azure accounts can be converted to pay-as-you-go accounts.

There are many types of member offers (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/sup...) from Microsoft that offer reduced rates for Azure services, like MSDN Platform subscribers and Visual Studio subscribers just to name a few. These types of subscriptions offer substantial discounts over a pay-as-you-go subscription, so it is highly recommended that businesses review and take advantage of any offers for which they may qualify. Current offers can be found at this URL.

You can have more than one subscription, and many organizations do, often for billing purposes, since each subscription generates its own set of billing reports and invoices. Or, separate subscriptions can be used simply to isolate the development and testing environment from production. The person who creates an Azure subscription becomes the global administrator for that subscription and has full access to every aspect of that subscription, but only that subscription. So, separate subscriptions can also be a way to create a division of responsibility for Azure services.
Few types
Sponsored subscriptions
Pay as you go
Enterprise subscriptions

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