• Can I use my monthly Azure credits to run production applications?
  Monthly Azure credits for Visual Studio subscribers are specifically for individual dev/test usage only. To run production workloads, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid Azure subscription, such as pay-as-you-go pricing.
• How much does it cost?
  There is no cost to use these credits. They are included in your Visual Studio subscription. When you run out of the credit that’s allotted for the month, you won’t be able to continue using it until it resets the next month.
• Are there any geographic or service restrictions impacting this benefit?
  Azure subscriptions created via the Visual Studio Subscriptions benefit may be impacted by restrictions that aren’t imposed on paid subscriptions. Certain geographies may not be available for creating VMs and Azure services, and certain service types may not be available. There may be a lower default quota than on paid subscriptions.
• My organization has multiple Visual Studio subscribers. Can their monthly Azure credits be pooled?
  Credit pooling is not available. This benefit is intended for personal use by the Visual Studio subscriber.
• Are there any other limitations I should be aware of?
  The monthly Azure credit for Visual Studio subscribers is for development and testing only and does not carry a financially backed SLA. We reserve the right to suspend any instance (VM or cloud service) that runs continuously for more than 120 hours or if we determine that the instance is being used for production. We are making this capacity available to Visual Studio subscribers on a best-effort basis; there is no guarantee of capacity availability.

The monthly credit does not apply toward purchase of the following services:

• Support plans
• Application Insights
• Visual Studio subscriptions
• Azure DevOps
• Visual Studio App Center
• Third-party branded products
• Products sold through the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Products otherwise sold separately from Azure (for example, Azure Active Directory Premium)

To purchase these services, you’ll need to remove your spending limit and provide a credit card for billing.

You can also:

• Manage Azure subscriptions with Azure PowerShell
• Install PowerShell & the Az module

This is helpful if you plan to interact with azure service through scripts.

# Connect to Azure with an authenticated account.
Connect-AzAccount

# Get subscriptions that the current account can access.
Get-AzSubscription

# Gets the metadata used to authenticate Azure Resource Manager requests.
Get-AzContext | ft -Wrap -auto

# Sets the tenant, subscription, and environment for cmdlets to use in the current session.
Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName "Visual Studio Enterprise Subscription"