With an Azure subscription you get access to alot of free products, with a new Azure account some are free for 12 months and after that you can use more than 25 free products with a limit on the amount of traffic or other limits. Read here!

So let’s create a free Azure function that includes at the moment 1 million requests and 400,000 Gbs of resource consumption. You can read more about how to configure Azure Functions here.

Now first search in Visual Studio Code extensions for Azure Functions and install it.

Next we want to develop locally as well so let’s download and install the Azure Functions Core Tools here.

Restart Visual Studio Code and next time we will create a local Azure Function!