License Manager user-based subscriptions
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- Kind
- Subscription plan
- Term
- No long-term licensing commitment; billed per user.
- Definition
- AWS License Manager User Guide: "With user-based subscriptions in AWS License Manager, you can purchase fully-compliant licensed software subscriptions."
- Commercial rules
- Supported products are Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Office on license-included EC2 instances joined to Active Directory, each user also needing a Windows Server Remote Desktop Services SAL. Each associated user and each vCPU of the license-included instances incur charges. Billing for Office and Visual Studio stops when the user is disassociated from all instances and unsubscribed.
- Applies to
- Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus and Standard 2021 and 2024, Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise 2022 on license-included Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 AMIs; one Remote Desktop Services SAL is required per user.
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