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Delve into Licensing and CAL Models with MetrixData360

Name: Delve into Licensing and CAL Models with MetrixData360
Uploaded: 2023-11-30T12:00:06+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains why you need to check license mobility rights before moving software to cloud providers. SQL Server can move to AWS with Software…

30 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin explains why you need to check license mobility rights before moving software to cloud providers. SQL Server can move to AWS with Software Assurance, but Office licenses cannot. Microsoft changes the rules, so always verify the product terms first.

Questions this video answers

According to the speaker (as of this recording), yes — SQL Server may be moved with Software Assurance to Amazon Windows servers, subject to current product terms and restrictions.

No — the speaker states "no Office licenses."

He said some products require dedicated hardware.

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I pull this stuff out of licensing guides and stuff like that on purpose is shared servers are when you get into public hosting and you don't have dedicated infrastructure. So if I'm in Azure or AWS or Google and I'm just going into Amazon EC2 instances not on dedicated hardware that's a shared server, right. And so that's where you have to look and see what is the license mobility rights and am I allowed to do that Right and so Microsoft's always changing this. So if you're watching this to your from now it might not be the same rules as it is today right. So today they allow you to take SQL Server over with SA to Amazon Windows servers, no Office licenses, a lot of restrictions like you know it has to be dedicated hardware like so anyways we won't go into the other products but just make sure you go into the product terms and and understand that.