Not allowed for licenses purchased after Oct. Windows Server without Software Assurance Summary of new rules for bringing Microsoft licenses to public clouds (as of Oct. 1) Public Cloud The Azure Hybrid Benefit results in significant savings on the price of purchasing those licenses on-demand through Azure. Because Azure Hybrid Benefit isn’t limited to products with License Mobility, you can bring Windows Servers licenses and SQL Server licenses to Azure. You can take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefit for both shared servers (virtual machines) and dedicated hosts.

This is a special benefit that allows you to bring your on-premise Microsoft licenses to Azure, as long as you have Software Assurance. While this change applies to Microsoft’s own Azure cloud as well, Microsoft gets around this limitation through the Azure Hybrid Benefit. 1 on dedicated hosts in cloud services until you upgrade to a version of the software released after that date. It won’t apply if you’re running licenses purchased before Oct. 1 and if you upgrade to a new version released on or after that date. These changes will apply to Microsoft licenses purchased after Oct. 1, the only way to use Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba or Google is to purchase the Windows license directly from the cloud provider when you buy the instances, virtual machines or hosts. The biggest “gotcha” in this change is that Software Assurance for Windows Server doesn’t include License Mobility rights.

They will be referred to as “Listed Providers.”

1, 2019, on-premises licenses purchased without Software Assurance and mobility rights cannot be deployed with dedicated hosted cloud services offered by the following public cloud providers: Microsoft, Alibaba, Amazon (including VMware Cloud on AWS), and Google. Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization OverviewĮarlier this month, Microsoft announced major changes to the rules for bringing Microsoft licenses to the public cloud, including AWS, Alibaba and Google.Flexera One Cloud Migration and Modernization Overview.Flexera One IT Asset Management Overview.

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