Azure Free Trial for 1 Month
Microsoft Azure offers benefits for new users. They provide a $200 credit with a 1-month free period, which is useful for temporary testing or setting up services like a proxy. Here’s a summary of the process.
Prerequisites
- A
Visa dual-currency cardfor payment binding - A good
terminalfor deploying SS, such as iterm2 on Mac - A
Microsoft account- if you don’t have one, you’ll be prompted to register when logging into Azure - You might need access to Google
Log in to the International Azure Website
Address: https://azure.microsoft.com
Follow the steps, and for the bank card section, just fill in the information normally. For the address, you can actually fill in whatever you want.
Key point: Just make sure the bank card information is correct
Enter the Portal
After successful registration, click on portal to enter the management page
https://portal.azure.com/#home
The page is quite complex. If you find English difficult, you can switch the language
OK, click on the left menu
Create an Instance
Key point: Choose the lowest configuration because the free $200 credit isn’t actually that much money, and Azure is expensive!
Fill in all the required fields as requested, continue through the steps, and finally click create. If successful, you’ll receive a notification.
SSH User
If you chose username and password for SSH, remember to record them, as you’ll need them when accessing via terminal
Public IP
You need to create a new one here, so you’ll have a fixed IP for external access
Port Opening
You need to add SSH port 22 and the future SS service port to the inbound port rules.
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