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jordanlev on July 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Revised and much faster, run your own high-end clo...

So you can install MS Windows on an EC2 instance without having to pay for a license? How does that work?

cschep on July 10, 2015 | [–]

Amazon is paying for it and it is reflected in the price you pay. Windows machines are more expensive to spin up than Linux machines.

callumjones on July 10, 2015 | [–]

The Windows license is factored into the hourly billing.

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