If you want learn more about Windows Azure and about Cloud services in general a good idea would be to create a trial account.
There are to choices available now :

1. Trial Windows Azure for 90 Days

This trial includes :
a) compute 750 small compute hours per month**
b) web sites 10 Shared Web Sites***
c) mobile services 10 Shared Mobile Services
d) relational database 1 Database Unit of Web Edition and Business Edition SQL Database****
e) storage 35GB with 50,000,000 storage transactions
f) bandwidth Unlimited inbound / 20GB Outbound

A Windows Live ID and credit card are required for proof of identity. There is no obligation to purchase at the end of the free trial. The trial includes monthly allocations for use. If you exceed these allocations, a spending limit will apply and your service will be disabled until the beginning of the next billing month; you will be required to redeploy your application and your subscription will expire at the end of the trial. If you remove the spending limit, any usage in excess of the monthly allocation will be charged at standard rates. At the end of the trial, any further usage will be charged at the standard rates. Once the spending limit has been disabled, it cannot be enabled again.

Click here to create a free trial account.

2. Windows Azure 30 days PASS

Windows Azure
a) 3 Small Compute Instances
b) 23GB of Storage
c) 250,000 Storage Transactions
Data Transfers (per region)
a) 3GB in
b) 3GB out
SQL Azure
a)Two 1GB Web Edition Databases
Azure AppFabric
a) 100,000 Access Control Transactions
b) 2 Service Bus Connections

Click here to create an account.

This type of account doesn't requiere a credit card but you will need a promo code.

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