MicrosoftDocs · learn-build-service-prod · Oct 13, 2025 · Oct 10, 2025 · Oct 10, 2025 · Oct 10, 2025
diff --git a/data-explorer/add-cluster-principal.md b/data-explorer/add-cluster-principal.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The following list outlines the prerequisites to add a cluster principal with Py
 
 The following list outlines the prerequisites to add a cluster principal with an ARM template.
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 
 ---

diff --git a/data-explorer/add-database-principal.md b/data-explorer/add-database-principal.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The following list outlines the prerequisites to add a cluster principal with Py
 
 The following list outlines the prerequisites to add a cluster principal with an ARM template.
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 
 ---

diff --git a/data-explorer/azure-powershell.md b/data-explorer/azure-powershell.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The steps in this article aren't required if you're running commands in [Azure C
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * Follow the Azure PowerShell prerequisites relevant to your environment. For more information, see [Install Azure PowerShell](/powershell/azure/install-azure-powershell).
 
 ## Install az.Kusto cmdlets

diff --git a/data-explorer/confidential-compute.md b/data-explorer/confidential-compute.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ms.custom: references_regions
 #Customer intent: I want to deploy Azure Data Explorer cluster in an confidential compute SKU.
 ---
 
-# Enable confidential compute on your Azure Data Explorer cluster (preview)
+# Enable confidential compute on your Azure Data Explorer cluster
 
 Confidential compute virtual machines (VMs) provide strong security and confidentiality for tenants. They establish a hardware-enforced boundary between your application and the virtualization stack. Clusters deployed with confidential compute VMs ensure hardware-based security and data confidentiality for sensitive workloads by establishing a trusted execution environment (TEE). For more information, see [confidential compute](/azure/confidential-computing/confidential-vm-overview) and [Azure guidance for isolated compute](/azure/confidential-computing/confidential-vm-faq).
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-cluster-and-database.md b/data-explorer/create-cluster-and-database.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ A Microsoft account or a Microsoft Entra user identity to create a free cluster.
 
 ### [Full cluster](#tab/full)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/).
 
 ---

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-cluster-database.md b/data-explorer/create-cluster-database.md
@@ -21,28 +21,28 @@ Prerequisites by method of cluster and database creation:
 
 ### [C#](#tab/csharp)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * [Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition](https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/). Turn on **Azure development** during the Visual Studio setup.
 * Install the [Microsoft.Azure.Management.Kusto NuGet package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Management.Kusto/).
 * [A Microsoft Entra application and service principal that can access resources](/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal). Save the **Directory (tenant) ID**, **Application ID**, and **Client Secret**.
 
 ### [Python](#tab/python)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * [Python 3.4+](https://www.python.org/downloads/).
 * Install the [azure-common](https://pypi.org/project/azure-common/) and [azure-mgmt-kusto](https://pypi.org/project/azure-mgmt-kusto/) packages.
 * [A Microsoft Entra application and service principal that can access resources](/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal). Save the **Directory (tenant) ID**, **Application ID**, and **Client Secret**.
 
 ### [Go](#tab/go)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * Install [Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git).
 * Install an appropriate version of [Go](https://golang.org/). For supported versions, see [Azure Kusto Module for Go](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/kusto/armkusto).
 * [A Microsoft Entra application and service principal that can access resources](/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal). Save the **Directory (tenant) ID**, **Application ID**, and **Client Secret**.
 
 ### [Azure CLI](#tab/azcli)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * You can use [Azure Cloud Shell](https://shell.azure.com) to run the code in this article without having to install anything on your local environment.
 * If you choose to install and use the Azure CLI locally, follow the steps in [Configure parameters](#configure-the-cli-parameters). This article requires the Azure CLI version 2.0.4 or later. Run `az --version` to check your version. If you need to install or upgrade, see [Install the Azure CLI](/cli/azure/install-azure-cli).
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The following steps aren't required if you're running commands in Azure Cloud Sh
 
 ### [ARM template](#tab/arm)
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 
 ---
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-event-grid-connection-sdk.md b/data-explorer/create-event-grid-connection-sdk.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ For general information about ingesting into Azure Data Explorer from Event Grid
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-event-grid-connection.md b/data-explorer/create-event-grid-connection.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ For general information about ingesting into Azure Data Explorer from Event Grid
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-event-hubs-connection-sdk.md b/data-explorer/create-event-hubs-connection-sdk.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ To learn how to create the connection in the Azure Data Explorer web UI, Azure p
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-event-hubs-connection.md b/data-explorer/create-event-hubs-connection.md
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ In the **Data preparation** window, all three steps are marked with green check
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ In the **Data preparation** window, all three steps are marked with green check
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ In the **Data preparation** window, all three steps are marked with green check
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-iot-hub-connection-sdk.md b/data-explorer/create-iot-hub-connection-sdk.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ For general information about ingesting into Azure Data Explorer from IoT Hub, s
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/create-iot-hub-connection.md b/data-explorer/create-iot-hub-connection.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ For general information about ingesting into Azure Data Explorer from IoT Hub, s
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A destination table. [Create a table](/kusto/management/create-table-command?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) or use an existing table.
 * An [ingestion mapping](/kusto/management/mappings?view=azure-data-explorer&preserve-view=true) for the table.

diff --git a/data-explorer/data-factory-command-activity.md b/data-explorer/data-factory-command-activity.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A source of data.
 * A data factory. [Create a data factory](data-factory-load-data.md#create-a-data-factory).

diff --git a/data-explorer/data-factory-load-data.md b/data-explorer/data-factory-load-data.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ In this article, you use the Data Factory Copy Data tool to load data from Amazo
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A source of data.
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/data-factory-template.md b/data-explorer/data-factory-template.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ You create the *Bulk Copy from Database to Azure Data Explorer* template by usin
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * A data factory. [Create a data factory](data-factory-load-data.md#create-a-data-factory).
 * A source of data.

diff --git a/data-explorer/data-purge-portal.md b/data-explorer/data-purge-portal.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Azure Data Explorer supports both individual record deletion and purging an enti
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure 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/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn) before you begin.
 * Sign in to the [Azure Data Explorer web UI](https://dataexplorer.azure.com/).
 * Create [an Azure Data Explorer cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md)
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/data-share.md b/data-explorer/data-share.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The data provider can share the data at the database level or at the cluster lev
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database for the leader and follower. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * The leader database should contain data. You can [ingest data](web-ui-samples-query.md) using one of the methods discussed in [ingestion overview](ingest-data-overview.md).
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/database-script.md b/data-explorer/database-script.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Notice the two commands are idempotent. When first run, they create the tables,
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 
 ## Security

diff --git a/data-explorer/database-table-policies.md b/data-explorer/database-table-policies.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Azure Data Explorer is a fast and highly scalable data exploration service for l
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * [A test table](net-sdk-ingest-data.md#create-a-table-on-your-test-cluster).
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/delete-cluster.md b/data-explorer/delete-cluster.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To delete only table records, see [Soft delete overview](/kusto/concepts/data-so
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 
 ## Delete a cluster
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/delete-database.md b/data-explorer/delete-database.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This article explains how to delete a database in Azure Data Explorer.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 
 ## Delete a database
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/devops.md b/data-explorer/devops.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This document describes a simple example of using the **Azure Data Explorer - Pi
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * Azure Data Explorer cluster setup:
   * Create Microsoft Entra app by [provisioning a Microsoft Entra application](provision-entra-id-app.md).

diff --git a/data-explorer/end-to-end-blob-ingestion.md b/data-explorer/end-to-end-blob-ingestion.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ You'll learn how to programmatically create a resource group, a storage account
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * [A Microsoft Entra application and service principal that can access resources](/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal). Save the **Directory (tenant) ID**, **Application ID**, and **Client Secret**.
 
 ## Install packages

diff --git a/data-explorer/external-table.md b/data-explorer/external-table.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ An external table is a schema entity that references data stored outside the Azu
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * Sign in to the [Azure Data Explorer web UI](https://dataexplorer.azure.com/) and [add a connection to your cluster](web-query-data.md#add-clusters).
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/follower.md b/data-explorer/follower.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The following apply to clusters:
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/).
+* An Azure subscription. Create a [free Azure account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn).
 * An Azure Data Explorer cluster and database for the leader and follower. [Create a cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * The leader database should contain data. You can [ingest data](web-ui-samples-query.md) using one of the methods discussed in [ingestion overview](ingest-data-overview.md).
 

diff --git a/data-explorer/hot-windows.md b/data-explorer/hot-windows.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ This document shows you how to use hot windows to query cold data.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free Azure 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/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn) before you begin.
 * Create [an Azure Data Explorer cluster and database](create-cluster-and-database.md).
 * Ingest data in your cluster with one of the methods described in the [Azure Data Explorer data ingestion overview](ingest-data-overview.md).