You're not allowed to create a SQL Managed Instance with the Azure $200 free credits.

So looks like I'll have to wait until the next calendar month.

A bit poor really if...

Edition of 5 means it's Azure SQL, would have been 8 if Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Edition Enum (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo) | Microsoft Docs

select @@VERSION

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition');

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Edition');

Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8...

Maybe I chose 'create new' to create a new server while creating the 1st Azure SQL database.

How can you tell if it's a managed instance?

Don't have enough credits to try...

Yep, their doc definitely says it supports it. That's why I'm wondering what's going on.

I'm pretty sure I went to 'Create a Resource'  in the https://portal.azure.com/ and chose...