Kurt Shintaku's Blog

We’re making a change in Microsoft’s licensing that concerns:

• Dedicated-hosted Cloud Services
• Licenses WITHOUT Software Assurance

Beginning October 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. They will be referred to as “Listed Providers.”

There’s a large Frequently Asked Questions list at the URL below.

• LICENSING: “Updated Microsoft licensing terms for dedicated hosted cloud services”
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updated-licensing-rights-for-dedicated-cloud