Looks like Microsoft is trying very hard to promote their version of cloud services. Microsoft is hosting these one day (9am-4pm) classes all over the country. Upon the second time receiving an unsolicited email regarding this event, I signed up, installed Azure Powershell on my PC, and registered a free 30-day trial of Azure by giving away my credit card #.
I arrived shortly after 9am. Breakfast was laid out (cut fruits, croissant and scones nicely cut in half, bagel unfortunately is in whole). Coffee, tea and orange juice. Lunch has salad, grilled veggie, chicken, and stuffed bell pepper. Desert was kept till end of class. Coffee tea throughout the day.About 20 students, from all around the area. Half in DevOp. We had to introduce ourselves. Azure has 19 regional data centers in all continents except Antarctica and Africa. It promotes Microsoft OS and its own storage. It charges on storage (comparable to AWS, according to today's teacher), and CPU time, and data egres. There are also giveaways. I (among 7) received a coupon code worth $100 at Microsoft online store, expires on 6/19 (just a week). Not sure what to buy.
