~Test Run AKS~ Advantages: AKS is CNCF-certified and is compliant with SOC, ISO, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Free Options with AKS: You can use the Azure Free Tier's 12 months of free services (if applicable) to run some AKS workloads: 750 hours of a B1s virtual machine (VM): You could use this VM as a worker node in your AKS cluster (though it's quite small for production workloads). 5 GB Blob Storage: Useful for container images or logs. Other Always-Free services: Some services like Azure Monitor, DevOps, etc., have free tiers that you can use alongside AKS.