Windows Licensing and VPS
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Interesting... The more cores you have, the more the windows licensing costs...
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@aaronstuder said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
Interesting... The more cores you have, the more the windows licensing costs...
That's odd. Since that's not how Microsoft charges VPS providers.
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Amazon seems to be able to do it
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@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
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@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
Are you sure that they are DC not SPLA?
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
Are you sure that they are DC not SPLA?
It is SPLA https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/
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@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
Are you sure that they are DC not SPLA?
It is SPLA https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/
Right, that's the key difference. Amazon uses SPLA, like Vultr does, and clearly covers the cost of it. These others, say Datacenter instead of SPLA, and don't cover the costs.
It's the combination of claiming a different license and being absurdly cheap, too cheap to pay for SPLA, that is the tip off.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
Are you sure that they are DC not SPLA?
It is SPLA https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/
Right, that's the key difference. Amazon uses SPLA, like Vultr does, and clearly covers the cost of it. These others, say Datacenter instead of SPLA, and don't cover the costs.
It's the combination of claiming a different license and being absurdly cheap, too cheap to pay for SPLA, that is the tip off.
What I should have clarified was that the Servers are running on Datacenter Edition regardless if they have SPLA or not using EC2.
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@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@dbeato said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Licensing and VPS:
@aaronstuder seems to do what? Amazon is NOT claiming to do Datacenter licensing, it is SPLA. And if you look at how tiny those instances are, they are definitely charging the normal Windows amount for them. So nothing like any of the ones that we've been questioning. It is, in fact, these Amazon numbers that make us realize how far off the other vendors are that are not charging plausible rates for Windows.
But Amazon has Datacenter on the systems through EC2 as far as I hosted Windows Servers there.
Are you sure that they are DC not SPLA?
It is SPLA https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/
Right, that's the key difference. Amazon uses SPLA, like Vultr does, and clearly covers the cost of it. These others, say Datacenter instead of SPLA, and don't cover the costs.
It's the combination of claiming a different license and being absurdly cheap, too cheap to pay for SPLA, that is the tip off.
What I should have clarified was that the Servers are running on Datacenter Edition regardless if they have SPLA or not using EC2.
Ah, I see. Yes, DCE vs DCL.
