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by gol706 3437 days ago
If you have either a MSDN subscription or sign your startup up for BizSpark, you can activate an Azure account without a credit card and use the credits they give you.

I've got friends who work for another cloud provider and they had major fraud problems until they instituted rules like these. Since cloud providers bill for usage at the end of the month, you can run up quite a bit of charges before the provider realizes that there isn't any money on the prepaid card and you might not be who you say you are.