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How College Students Can Claim Free Azure Credits and Start Building in the Cloud
Are you a college student eager to explore cloud computing, AI, app development, or data science—but worried about the cost? Microsoft Azure has your back. With the Azure for Students offer, you can ...
Great topic for students. The most important advice I would add is to learn cost hygiene from day one, even when using free credits.
Students should set budgets/alerts immediately, prefer small SKUs, shut down VMs when not in use, delete test resource groups after labs, and avoid accidentally leaving public IPs, disks, or databases running. A simple naming convention and one resource group per lab also makes cleanup much easier.
For learning projects, I would suggest starting with Azure Static Web Apps, Functions, Storage, App Service, and Azure SQL or Cosmos DB only when needed. Those give a good cloud foundation without burning through credits too fast.