The portal

Once your account has been created, you can login to the Azure portal. The portal can be accessed at https://portal.azure.com.

The portal is your way to access and manage your resources in Azure, such as VMs, web apps, SQL databases, and so on. This is the easiest way, but it is not the only way. More ways will be discussed later on in this chapter.

When you first log in the portal, it will look like the following screenshot:

As you can see, this portal consists of many parts. Let's break it down to understand what it consists of.