Windows Server licensing is tricky. That’s particularly true if we want to run Windows Server VMs in the cloud and use existing licenses for it. A key challenge with bringing our own licenses to the cloud (BYOL) is that Windows Server is licensed by physical core (rather than by virtual core) and that we’re only allowed to move licenses from one piece of hardware to another every 90 days. With regular VMs, meeting those license terms is all but impossible. On Google Cloud, sole-tenant nod...
