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Azure Setup

Set up your Azure Student Account

Azure Student Account enables you to use free services on Azure and start to build in the cloud. You will have $100 Azure credits for the academic year.

To create a new Azure account, you will need your BSB mail address and follow the link: Azure for Students – Free Account Credit.

Set up a monthly budget

Budget in Azure aims to limit the spending of your Azure credits as you can easily spend $100 with a bad configuration. To avoid this, we need to configure a budget, you can follow the tutorial to create a budget.

Set up a SQL Database with Azure

Azure SQL configuration

In the portal Azure, search for Azure SQL

Click on Azure SQL Database, try it for free: Create azure db

Then fill-in the configuration, select your Subscription, an existing Resource Group and create a Database name. Create azure db config

Create a new Server with a Server name and choose a West Europe Location. Select an Authentication method, use Microsft Entra-only authentication. Create azure db server config

In the Cost summary, verify that you have a Free estimated total.

Click on Review + create.

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