Windows Server AMA: Developing Hybrid Cloud and Azure Skills for Windows Server Professionals

You can create a Free azure account, that will give you $200 azure credit that you can use to setup your lab.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

 

Excellent question! It depends a bit on what services on Azure you want to study. Since this is a Windows Server AMA, I guess you are interested in Windows Server environments connected to Azure, for management or migration reasons. First, I would definitely check out to create an Azure account: https://azure.microsoft.com/free/ this will provide you with some free services for 12 months as well as some services which are always free and a start credit. Now for the on-premises lab environment I created a tiny Windows Server lab running on Intel NUC, you can read more about this here: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/11/my-windows-server-and-azure-arc-hybrid-cloud-lab-kit/ This allows you to test things like Azure AD, Azure Arc, Azure Migrate, AKS hybrid, and more.