Posted by: kurtsh | October 21, 2026

INFO: Get started with your individual “Azure Dev/Test credit subscription” from your Visual Studio subscription

Every Microsoft Visual Studio subscription comes with a developer Azure subscription & monthly credit allowance. Think of this as a sandbox to learn & work with for independent development & testing workloads.

Every subscriber gets their own “personal” Azure subscription with their own monthly credit allocation depending on what edition of Visual Studio they have: “Pro” gets $50/mo & “Enterprise” gets $150/mo.

ACTIVATING AZURE BENEFIT FOR VISUAL STUDIO SUBSCRIBERS

How to activate the Azure benefit:

  1. Sign in at https://my.visualstudio.com.
  2. Go to Benefits.
  3. Find the Azure tile under Tools.
  4. Select Activate.
  5. If an Azure subscription doesn’t already exist, complete the registration and identity verification.
  6. Accept the terms and select Sign up.

(The account used during activation determines the Microsoft Entra tenant associated with the subscription.)

For more details, visit:

WHAT ELSE DOES MY VISUAL STUDIO SUBSCRIPTION PROVIDE?

For more information about your Visual Studio subscription & it’s benefits, including:

  • IDE: Licensed access to download & install the Visual Studio Enterprise IDE
  • SOFTWARE: Download & use Microsoft software for development purposes at no cost
  • AZURE: Azure credits refreshed every month that you can use to explore and try Azure services
  • AZURE DEVOPS: Usage of features in the Azure DevOps service
  • C# DEVKIT: Download the official C# Dev Kit for VS Code
  • DISCOUNTS: Save up to $900 on registration to Visual Studio LIVE! (Next event in Orlando Nov 15-20, 2026)
  • COMMUNITIES: Access the Azure community, Q&A, Tech Community, & Developer Community

Watch the jumpstart video for https://my.visualstudio.com.  Also read the following:

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