[AusNOG] AWS and MS SPLA

[Ryan Finnesey]

Amazon has a custom licensing agreement with Microsoft for the Windows and SQL License. So the cost of the Windows/SQL "license" is included in the per min cost.  

Cheers
Ryan
 

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Zobel
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:28 PM
To: David Hughes
Cc: AusNOG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AWS and MS SPLA

Hosted services can only legally be licensed via SPLA. License Mobility requires a signed agreement between the client, service provider and approval from Microsoft, and SPLA. 

Having been through this with Microsoft in detail, to the best of my knowledge (IANAL) there would be no legal way to run windows on the platform without SPLA. 

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On 14/11/2012, at 2:04 PM, David Hughes <David at Hughes.com.au> wrote:

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> 
> One thing that I find interesting is that AWS does not appear to offer any SPLA licensing.  Their doco implies you need to bring your own licenses which implies using the provisions of Microsoft's License Mobility.  Unless I'm mistaken, license mobility does not allow the migration of anything other than certain server software licenses (exchange, sql, lync, sharepoint etc).
> 
> So as far as I can see, it is illegal to run a windows based EC2 server with more than the default 2 Remote Desktop Services user licenses.  Also, those 2 users cannot run MS Office or other MS desktop apps as the licensing is not covered under Licence Mobility.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Anyone here have more MS licensing clue than me (which wouldn't be hard by the way).
> 
> 
> David
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