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Login to https://portal.azure.com with your Cornell netId credentials. If the login process asks you, choose "school/work account", not "microsoft.com account".
Support
How much does Azure support cost?
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- All Azure subscriptions managed by the CIT Cloud Team have access to Premier-level support (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/). See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request for your options for creating a support request.
- Email the CIT Cloud Team at cloud-support@cornell.edu. At present the CIT Cloud Team is ramping up expertise in Azure so support is available on a best-effort basis.
Costs & Billing
How am I billed for my Azure charges?
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Cornell does receive a discount by virtue of having an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft. Any subscription that is under our EA automatically receives the discount. The discount percentage is variable based on the service. To see the exact EA price for each Azure resource, please follow the instructions here : Azure Pricing Calculator
Is there a data egress waiver in Azure, like there is in AWS?
In short, yes Yes there is a data egress waiver. See See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-egress-fee-waiver-for-the-academic-community/
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Yes! You can use any combination of individual netIDs and/or security groups to meet your need. Documentation to make permission changes Is is available directly from Microsoft.
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Microsoft offers a free online learning path for Azure Fundamentals. In addition to that, within the Microsoft Learn training options, there are currently 1,375 381 related to "Azure".
Additional training opportunities are available here: Azure Training
Virtual Machines
What are the recommended settings for synchronizing the system clock?
Images from the Azure Marketplace should include default configurations for system clock management. These range from using an emulated real-time-clock within the guest or reaching out to public network time servers around the world.
In In cases where you have configured restrictive Network Security Groups (NSG) that limit out-bound traffic, you should confirm that outbound probes to NTP servers are permitted. Typically, this traffic operates on UDP port 123. No special in-bound rules are required, since NSGs at Azure are stateful.
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