Merge pull request #228743 from WilliamDAssafMSFT/20230227-free-azure-account-link

v-dirichards · web-flow · commit ff6ecaafdafa · 2023-02-27T16:22:59.000-06:00
20230227 more accessible free Azure Account link
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/data-explorer/data-explorer-create-pool-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/data-explorer/data-explorer-create-pool-portal.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse workspace](../quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/data-explorer/data-explorer-create-pool-studio.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/data-explorer/data-explorer-create-pool-studio.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse workspace](../quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/machine-learning/quickstart-integrate-azure-machine-learning.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/machine-learning/quickstart-integrate-azure-machine-learning.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ In the following sections, you'll find guidance on how to create an Azure Machin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [Create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
 - [Synapse Analytics workspace](../get-started-create-workspace.md) with an ADLS Gen2 storage account configured as the default storage. You need to be the **Storage Blob Data Contributor** of the ADLS Gen2 filesystem that you work with.
 - [Azure Machine Learning workspace](../../machine-learning/how-to-manage-workspace.md).
 - If you chose to use a Service principal, you need permissions (or request from someone who has permissions) to create a service principal and secret which you can use to create the linked service. Note that this service principal needs to be assigned the contributor role in the Azure Machine Learning workspace.
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-apache-spark-notebook.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-apache-spark-notebook.md
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse Analytics workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 - [Serverless Apache Spark pool](quickstart-create-apache-spark-pool-studio.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
 
 Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/).
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Create a notebook
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-copy-activity-load-sql-pool.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-copy-activity-load-sql-pool.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ In this quickstart, you learn how to *load data from Azure SQL Database into Azu
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* Azure subscription: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+* Azure subscription: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 * Azure Synapse workspace: Create a Synapse workspace using the Azure portal following the instructions in [Quickstart: Create a Synapse workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md).
 * Azure SQL Database: This tutorial copies data from the Adventure Works LT sample dataset in Azure SQL Database. You can create this sample database in SQL Database by following the instructions in [Create a sample database in Azure SQL Database](/azure/azure-sql/database/single-database-create-quickstart). Or you can use other data stores by following similar steps.
 * Azure storage account: Azure Storage is used as the *staging* area in the copy operation. If you don't have an Azure storage account, see the instructions in [Create a storage account](../storage/common/storage-account-create.md).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-gpu-pool-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-gpu-pool-portal.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse Analytics workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-spark-pool-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-spark-pool-portal.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse Analytics workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-spark-pool-studio.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-apache-spark-pool-studio.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse workspace](./quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-sql-pool-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-sql-pool-portal.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Synapse workspace](./quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-sql-pool-studio.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-sql-pool-studio.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account before you begin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [create an Azure account for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/)
 - [Azure Synapse workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md)
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-workspace-powershell.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-create-workspace-powershell.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Azure PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from
 
 In this quickstart, you learn to create a Synapse workspace using Azure PowerShell.
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-data-flow.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-data-flow.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ In this quickstart, you do the following steps:
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* **Azure subscription**: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+* **Azure subscription**: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 * **Azure Synapse workspace**: Create a Synapse workspace using the Azure portal following the instructions in [Quickstart: Create a Synapse workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md).
 * **Azure storage account**: You use ADLS storage as *source* and *sink* data stores. If you don't have a storage account, see [Create an Azure storage account](../storage/common/storage-account-create.md) for steps to create one.
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-read-from-gen2-to-pandas-dataframe.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-read-from-gen2-to-pandas-dataframe.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ From a Synapse Studio notebook, you'll:
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription - [Create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+- You'll need an Azure subscription. If needed, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
 - Synapse Analytics workspace with ADLS Gen2 configured as the default storage - You need to be the **Storage Blob Data Contributor** of the ADLS Gen2 filesystem that you work with. For details on how to create a workspace, see [Creating a Synapse workspace](get-started-create-workspace.md).
 - Apache Spark pool in your workspace - See [Create a serverless Apache Spark pool](get-started-analyze-spark.md#create-a-serverless-apache-spark-pool).
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-transform-data-using-spark-job-definition.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/quickstart-transform-data-using-spark-job-definition.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ In this quickstart, you'll use Azure Synapse Analytics to create a pipeline usin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* **Azure subscription**: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+* **Azure subscription**: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 * **Azure Synapse workspace**: Create a Synapse workspace using the Azure portal following the instructions in [Quickstart: Create a Synapse workspace](quickstart-create-workspace.md).
 * **Apache Spark job definition**: Create an Apache Spark job definition in the Synapse workspace following the instructions in [Tutorial: Create Apache Spark job definition in Synapse Studio](spark/apache-spark-job-definitions.md).
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/create-data-warehouse-powershell.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/create-data-warehouse-powershell.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Create an dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) in Azure Synapse Analytics using
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > Creating a dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) may result in a new billable service.  For more information, see [Azure Synapse Analytics pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/sql-data-warehouse/).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/load-data-from-azure-blob-storage-using-copy.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/load-data-from-azure-blob-storage-using-copy.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ This tutorial uses the [COPY statement](/sql/t-sql/statements/copy-into-transact
 > * Use the COPY T-SQL statement to load data into your data warehouse
 > * View the progress of data as it is loading
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Before you begin
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/load-data-wideworldimportersdw.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/load-data-wideworldimportersdw.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This tutorial uses PolyBase to load the WideWorldImportersDW data warehouse from
 > * Generate a year of data in the date dimension and sales fact tables
 > * Create statistics on the newly loaded data
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Before you begin
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-portal.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ms.custom:
 # Quickstart: Pause and resume compute in dedicated SQL pool via the Azure portal
 
 You can use the Azure portal to pause and resume the dedicated SQL pool compute resources.  
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!NOTE]  
 > This article applies to dedicated SQL pools created in Azure Synapse Workspaces and not dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW). There are different PowerShell cmdlets to use for each, for example, use `Suspend-AzSqlDatabase` for a dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW), but `Suspend-AzSynapseSqlPool` for a dedicated SQL pool in an Azure Synapse Workspace. For more on the differences between dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) and dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse Workspaces, read [What's the difference between Azure Synapse (formerly SQL DW) and Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-synapse-analytics-blog/what-s-the-difference-between-azure-synapse-formerly-sql-dw-and/ba-p/3597772).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-powershell.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-powershell.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ms.custom:
 # Quickstart: Pause and resume compute in dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) with Azure PowerShell
 
 You can use Azure PowerShell to pause and resume dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) compute resources.
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > This article applies to dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW) and not dedicated SQL pools created in Azure Synapse Workspaces. There are different PowerShell cmdlets to use for each, for example, use `Suspend-AzSqlDatabase` for a dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW), but `Suspend-AzSynapseSqlPool` for a dedicated SQL pool in an Azure Synapse Workspace. For instructions to pause and resume a dedicated SQL pool in an Azure Synapse Workspace, see [Quickstart: Pause and resume compute in dedicated SQL pool in an Azure Synapse Workspace with Azure PowerShell](pause-and-resume-compute-workspace-powershell.md).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-workspace-powershell.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/pause-and-resume-compute-workspace-powershell.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ms.custom:
 # Quickstart: Pause and resume compute in dedicated SQL pool in a Synapse Workspace with Azure PowerShell
 
 You can use Azure PowerShell to pause and resume dedicated SQL pool in a Synapse Workspace compute resources.
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!NOTE]  
 > This article applies to dedicated SQL pools created in Azure Synapse Workspaces and not dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW). There are different PowerShell cmdlets to use for each, for example, use `Suspend-AzSqlDatabase` for a dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW), but `Suspend-AzSynapseSqlPool` for a dedicated SQL pool in an Azure Synapse Workspace. For instructions to pause and resume a dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW), see [Quickstart: Pause and resume compute in dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) with Azure PowerShell](pause-and-resume-compute-powershell.md).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-configure-workload-isolation-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-configure-workload-isolation-portal.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ms.custom:
 
 In this quickstart, you will configure [workload isolation](sql-data-warehouse-workload-isolation.md) by creating a workload group for reserving resources.  For purposes of this tutorial, we will create the workload group for data loading called `DataLoads`. The workload group will reserve 20% of the system resources.  With 20% isolation for data loads, they are guaranteed resources that allow them to hit SLAs.  After creating the workload group, [create a workload classifier](quickstart-create-a-workload-classifier-portal.md) to assign queries to this workload group.
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-configure-workload-isolation-tsql.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-configure-workload-isolation-tsql.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ms.custom: azure-synapse, mode-other
 
 In this quickstart, you'll quickly create a workload group and classifier for reserving resources for data loading. The workload group will allocate 20% of the system resources to the data loads.  The workload classifier will assign requests to the data loads workload group.  With 20% isolation for data loads, they are guaranteed resources to hit SLAs.
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Creating a Synapse SQL instance in Azure Synapse Analytics may result in a new billable service.  For more information, see [Azure Synapse Analytics pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/sql-data-warehouse/).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-create-a-workload-classifier-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-create-a-workload-classifier-portal.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ms.custom: azure-synapse, mode-ui
 In this quickstart, you will create a [workload classifier](sql-data-warehouse-workload-classification.md) for assigning queries to a workload group.  The classifier will assign requests from the `ELTLogin` SQL user to the `DataLoads` workload group.   Follow the [Quickstart: Configure workload isolation](quickstart-configure-workload-isolation-portal.md) tutorial to create the `DataLoads` workload group.  This tutorial will create a workload classifier with the WLM_LABEL option to help further classify requests correctly.  The classifier will assign `HIGH` [workload importance](sql-data-warehouse-workload-importance.md) to these requests as well.
 
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 
 ## Sign in to the Azure portal
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-create-a-workload-classifier-tsql.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/quickstart-create-a-workload-classifier-tsql.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ms.custom: azure-synapse, mode-other
 
 In this quickstart, you'll quickly create a workload classifier with high importance for the CEO of your organization. This workload classifier will allow CEO queries to take precedence over other queries with lower importance in the queue.
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) account before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Creating a dedicated SQL pool instance in Azure Synapse Analytics may result in a new billable service.  For more information, see [Azure Synapse Analytics pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/sql-data-warehouse/).
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-load-from-azure-data-lake-store.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-load-from-azure-data-lake-store.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ This guide outlines how to use the [COPY statement](/sql/t-sql/statements/copy-i
 > * Create the target table to load data from Azure Data Lake Storage.
 > * Create the COPY statement to load data into the data warehouse.
 
-If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+If you don't have an Azure subscription, [create a free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 
 ## Before you begin
 
diff --git a/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-monitor-workload-portal.md b/articles/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-monitor-workload-portal.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This article describes how to use the Azure portal to monitor your workload. Thi
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Azure subscription: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
+- Azure subscription: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) before you begin.
 - SQL pool: We will be collecting logs for a SQL pool. If you don't have a SQL pool provisioned, see the instructions in [Create a SQL pool](./load-data-from-azure-blob-storage-using-copy.md).
 
 ## Create a Log Analytics workspace
