Getting started with the cloud and be daunting. There are many ways to accidentally spend a lot of money with either wrong settings or simply forgetting about expensive running resources. In this talk, we'll go over how to get started with Azure and make a very simple application. You'll learn about Azure subscription types and budgets, storage options, basic security, virtual machines, and serverless application hosting. We'll leverage Visual Studio for creating and deploying our application. We'll also look at the options for observability and logging, and database options.