I’m going thru the Azure Training kit and need to obtain a windows azure account and I am reaching out to see what is the best way to go.
As I understand it, options are:
· I’m aware of free 30 day (no credit card required) trial accounts (for example http://windowsazurepass.com/?campid=878F2064-1944-E011-98E3-001F29C8E9A8) . I have signed up for this 2 weeks ago and got an email stating “You have been added to the waiting list for a Windows Azure platform 30 day pass.You will be notified if a pass becomes available.”
· http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/ this page requires a credit card and gives you 90 days free with allocation limits. Overages hit the credit card. Since, I’m just playing, I’m obviously concerned with writing some dumb-ass code that results in surprise charges.
· MSDN subscribers have azure benefits included with their subscription (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/msdn-benefits/) I’m sure we have a ton of MSDN subscriptions but I’m unsure if I can provision azure storage in association with what we have.
Are there other options that I’m not aware of? Can you guys point me in the right direction?