July Update
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Hi All
I’ve been fairly quiet recently due to a good ol’ mixture of work, family events, and basically life. I was working on something meaty and interesting which would be a nice follow-on/addition to the Azure Arc series. However, like all best-laid plans, the big bang return has been sabotaged with a bang of a technical failure. Fear not my beardies, I am currently waiting on a few items and should be up and running in the next week or so.
In the meantime here is a tidbit of information to keep you going. It’s difficult to learn something new when you need to pay for some of it … dur … Ben. ‘Why do you say this?’ I hear you ask, good question. Did you know that Azure has several free services you can consume after your free trial period? Yup, yup they do and here is a list of them (all 118 of them):
| Azure service | Description | Type | Free monthly amount | Free period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advisor | Get personalized recommendations and best practices for Azure. | Management and governance | Unlimited | Always |
| API Management | Manage APIs across all platforms with a hybrid, multi-cloud platform. | Integration | 1 million monthly calls free with Consumption tier | Always |
| App Configuration | Store and manage configurations for all your Azure apps. | Developer tools | 1,000 requests per day with 10 MB storage | Always |
| App Service | Quickly create powerful apps for any platform or device using your choice of tools including Node.js and PHP. | Compute | 10 web, mobile, or API apps with 1 GB storage 1 hour per day | Always |
| Automation | Simplify cloud management with process automation. | Management and governance | 500 minutes of job runtime | Always |
| Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) | Enable identity and access management in the cloud. | Identity | 50,000 stored objects with single sign-on (SSO) to all cloud apps | Always |
| Azure Arc | Extend Azure management and services. | Hybrid + multicloud | Free Azure control plane functionality for resources outside Azure, search and indexing for Azure Arc-enabled resources | Always |
| Azure Attestation | Verify the identity and security posture of trusted platform modules and trusted execution environments. | Security | Free | Always |
| Azure Cosmos DB | Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. | Databases | 1,000 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage | Always |
| Azure DevOps | Build apps in any language using Git repos, CI/CD, and build and release automation. | Developer tools | 5 users with unlimited private Git repos | Always |
| Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. | Compute | Free | Always |
| Azure Lighthouse | Manage service providers with Zero Trust access controls. | Management and governance | Free | Always |
| Azure Managed Applications, Service catalog | Make it easier to acquire services with a catalog of approved cloud offerings. | Management and governance | Free publishing | Always |
| Azure Maps | Create location-aware web and mobile applications using geospatial services, APIs, and SDKs. | Internet of Things | 1,000 to 5,000 transactions for specific mapping and location insights features | Always |
| Azure Migrate | Discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure. | Migration | Free | Always |
| Azure Policy | Achieve real-time cloud compliance at scale with consistent resource governance. | Management and governance | Free access to configuration and change tracking features | Always |
| Azure Resource Mover | Simplify how you move multiple resources between Azure regions. | Management and governance | Free (ingress and egress charges may apply) | Always |
| Azure SignalR Service | Add real-time communications into your web applications. | Web | 20 concurrent connections per unit and 20,000 messages | Always |
| Bandwidth (Data Transfer) | Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centers. | Networking | 100 GB outbound | Always |
| Batch | Scale your application in the cloud with job orchestration and scheduling for HPC applications. | Compute | Free | Always |
| Bot Service | Develop intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that scale on demand. | AI + machine learning | 10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages | Always |
| Cloud Shell | Manage Azure resources in a browser-based shell using popular command-line tools and programming languages. | Management and governance | 5 GB free storage in Azure Files for 12 months | Always |
| Cognitive Search | Include a cloud search service in your web and mobile application. | AI + machine learning | 50 MB storage for 10,000 hosted documents and 3 indexes per service | Always |
| Cognitive Service for Language | Extract information such as sentiment, key phrases, named entities, and language from your text. | AI + machine learning | 5,000 text records | Always |
| Container Apps | Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers. | Containers | 180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, and 2 million requests | Always |
| Cost Management | Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency. | Management and governance | Free | Always |
| Data Catalog | Get more value from your enterprise data assets. | Analytics | Unlimited users | Always |
| Data Factory | Compose and manage data services at scale. | Analytics | 5 low-frequency activities | Always |
| Database Migration Service | Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud. | Databases | Free Standard Compute | Always |
| DevTest Labs | Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments. | Developer tools | Free | Always |
| Event Grid | Get reliable event delivery at massive scale. | Integration | 100,000 operations per month | Always |
| Face | Detect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in images. | 30,000 transactions of Free instance | Always | |
| Functions | Process events with a serverless code architecture. | Compute | 1 million requests | Always |
| Health Bot | Build and deploy AI-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. | AI + machine learning | 3,000 messages (up to 10 messages per second) | Always |
| Health Data Services | Unify and manage health data and protected health information (PHI) in the cloud. | Integration | 1 GB structured and blob storage, 50,000 API requests, .5 GB transformation operations, 100,000 events | Always |
| Immersive Reader | Embed text reading and comprehension capabilities into applications. | AI + machine learning | 3 million characters | Always |
| IoT Edge | Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to IoT edge devices. | Internet of Things | Free, open-source edge runtime | Always |
| IoT Hub | Connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets with a scalable platform. | Internet of Things | 8,000 messages per day and .5 KB message meter size of Free edition | Always |
| Logic Apps | Build automated integration solutions across clouds and on-premises systems. | Integration | 4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan | Always |
| Machine Learning | Develop and run R and Python models on your platform of choice. | AI + machine learning | Free | Always |
| Metrics Advisor | Embed AI-powered monitoring features to proactively diagnose issues. | AI + machine learning | 25 time series | Always |
| Monitor | Gain full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network. | Management and governance | See Azure Monitor pricing details for free amounts per feature | Always |
| Network Watcher | Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance and health. | Networking | 5 GB storage with 1,000 checks, 10 tests, and 10 connection metrics | Always |
| Notification Hubs | Send push notifications to any platform from any back end. | Mobile | 1 million push notifications with free namespace | Always |
| Open Datasets | Accelerate machine learning with curated datasets. | AI + machine learning | Free (egress charges may apply) | Always |
| Private Link | Privately access services on Azure, keeping your data on the Microsoft network. | Networking | Free | Always |
| Resource Manager | Simplify how you manage your app resources. | Management and governance | Free | Always |
| Security Center | Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources. | Security | Free policy assessment and recommendations | Always |
| Service Fabric | Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps. | Containers | Free | Always |
| Spatial Anchors | Build mixed reality apps that map, share, and persist 3D content. | Mixed reality | 10,000 anchors queried | Always |
| Speaker Recognition | Accurately verify and identify speakers by their unique voice characteristics. | AI + machine learning | 10,000 transactions each of speaker verification, speaker identification, and voice storage | Always |
| Speech to Text | Transcribe spoken audio to text. | AI + machine learning | 5 audio hours each of Standard, Custom, and Conversation Transcription Multichannel Audio, 1 Custom endpoint hosting model | Always |
| Speech Translation | Integrate real-time speech translation into your app. | AI + machine learning | 5 audio hours Standard | Always |
| SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition | Build, test, and demonstrate applications in a nonproduction environment. | Developer tools | Free | Always |
| Static Web Apps | Streamline full-stack development from source code to global high availability. | Compute | 100 GB bandwidth per subscription, 2 custom domains and .5 GB storage per app | Always |
| Text to Speech | Build apps that convert text to lifelike speech. | AI + machine learning | 5 million characters Standard, 500,000 characters Neural, and hosting model | Always |
| Virtual Network | Provision private networks and connect to on-premises datacenters. | Networking | 50 virtual networks | Always |
| Visual Studio Code | Boost productivity with a powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development. | Developer tools | Free | Always |
| Web PubSub | Build real-time, two-way communication into your web and mobile apps. | Web | 20,000 messages per unit per day and 20 concurrent connections per unit (1 unit max) | Always |
So if you have an Azure account and your trial has expired, the list above are all the services you can consume still with their appropriate limits.