Create a Windows Virtual Machine via Azure Portal

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Hello Cloud Enthusiast, have you tried creating a virtual machine yet using the famous Azure portal?

To begin with, what is a virtual machine? A virtual machine is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Being an emulation, a virtual machine can perform almost all of the same functions as a computer, including running applications and operating systems. It can run on a physical machine and access computing resources.

Follow me as I show you the basic steps to create a virtual machine.

Step 1:

Go to https://azure.microsoft.com/, click on the "Start free" button and follow the prompts to create an account.

Step 2:

Once you have an Azure account, sign in to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com in your browser. When you are logged in successfully, it should look like this;

Step 3:

Click on virtual machine on the home page and click the down arrow beside create and select create a virtual machine hosted by Azure

Step 4:

Let's begin with creating a resource group by clicking on Create New

I called the resource group Decemberworkload and my virtual machine lawrievm, any name works too!
On the next few screenshots you will see the options I selected based on my subscription.

Step 5:

Now let's create a username and password for our virtual machine, take note of the password because we will need it to have access to the virtual machine created.

Step 6:

Click on Review + create tab next to verify validation, a green check mark will appear on the top left hand screen of the review page followed by a breakdown list of options selected for the disks sizes, networking, management etc - usually they are preset already