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Last Updated: 01st August 2011 05:45:41 pm

When using cloud service providers such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure, the virtual machines do not have HostIDs that you can lock your software to. In such cases, you should use network licenses and use one of the following options to provide the software to the user:

• You can ask your customer to run a license server either inside or outside of the cloud environment. If your application does not require a high number of checkouts/checkins over short time intervals, it is recommended to connect the application to the existing license server on the end-user network.
• You can host the license server for the customer.