Special Licensing Provisions for Azure Dedicated Host

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Concurrent with the announcement of new rules for dedicated hosting (at Alibaba, Amazon, and Google), Microsoft announced that the following special licensing provisions favoring Azure multitenant services will apply to Azure Dedicated Host as well:

Azure Dedicated Host will be treated as a Qualified Multitenant Hoster (QMTH) Partner, which provides favorable licensing terms for use of Windows Enterprise and Office 365 ProPlus within server-based desktops.

Visual Studio and MSDN “Cloud Use Rights,” which permit development and test use of Microsoft software within Azure VMs that are run on multitenant hardware, are being extended to cover Azure Dedicated Host.

Azure Hybrid Benefit (HB) will broaden to allow customers to apply Windows Server and SQL Server core licenses to Azure VMs that are run on Azure Dedicated Hosts in the same way the licenses are currently applied to virtual cores used by VMs that are run on Azure’s multitenant infrastructure. The core licenses must be covered by active Software Assurance (SA).

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