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Setting Up an Azure Subscription You Can Experiment In Safely

Subscriptions, resource groups, regions, quota and budget alerts - the unglamorous setup that decides whether your first month of Azure AI costs 4 dollars or 400.

  • 40 min lesson
  • beginner level
  • Azure AI Track
  • Narrated presentation

What you’ll learn

  • Tenant, subscription, resource group, resource - and why one RG per experiment
  • Model and deployment-type availability varies by region; choose region from the model table
  • Token-per-minute quota is per subscription, per region, per model, and takes time to raise
  • Cost Management budgets and alerts must exist before the first API call
  • Tagging for readable cost analysis
  • The three hourly-billed traps: AI Search tier, ML compute instances, provisioned throughput

Inside this lesson

A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 3 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.

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