If a customer wants to use their existing per-socket, per-core, or per-virtual-machine software licenses for Microsoft Windows Server on AWS, which type of Amazon EC2 instance must they use?
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Correct answer: Dedicated Hosts.
Why this is the answer
Dedicated Hosts allow customers to use their existing per-socket, per-core, or per-virtual-machine software licenses, such as those for Microsoft Windows Server, on AWS. This is because Dedicated Hosts provide physical servers entirely dedicated to a single customer, offering visibility into the underlying sockets and cores. Spot Instances are for fault-tolerant workloads and can be interrupted, making them unsuitable for license portability. Dedicated Instances run on hardware dedicated to a single customer, but they don't provide visibility into the underlying physical server characteristics needed for certain license types. Reserved Instances are a billing discount applied to EC2 instances and do not dictate the underlying hardware tenancy.
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