At Clouding, our goal is to provide you with the best Cloud platform to deploy your applications and projects. However, we understand that for some projects, having the best IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) may not be enough, and you might need certain additional services.
At Clouding, we also offer access to various licenses for Microsoft products, on a rental basis without commitments or monthly minimums.
You will find the following products among our offerings:
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Remote Desktop Licenses (Terminal Services)
When you need to deploy a traditional desktop application in a Cloud environment, you will likely require Remote Desktop licenses—also known as Terminal Services—for your project.
At Clouding, we offer Remote Desktop Services licenses at a very competitive price. Remember, since this is a SAL (Subscriber Access License), you will need one license per user—where a user is defined as a physical person— who will connect to the server. However, you will not need any CAL or SAL for the operating system itself, as these are covered by the license included with your Windows Cloud Server. Therefore, you will only need one RDS license per user and nothing else.
Monthly cost for Remote Desktop Services license: €7.90 + VAT
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Microsoft SQL Server Licenses
Another common license for certain types of projects is Microsoft SQL Server. At Clouding, we offer licenses for different editions in two licensing formats, depending on your usage. In this case, there is no need to license the operating system itself, as this license is provided with the Windows Cloud Server you have contracted at Clouding.
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Per SAL (or CAL)
These licenses are only valid for SQL Server Standard and can only be used in certain scenarios. They can only be used if it is possible to know exactly how many users—again, referring to physical persons—will have access to the server. Thus, they can be suitable for a closed company intranet, hosting the backend of a Desktop application used by a defined number of users, or similar cases.Monthly cost for SAL/CAL Microsoft SQL Server: €19 + VAT
It is important to note that this license cannot be used for an open web server accessible via the internet. Whether only the web server connects to the SQL server is irrelevant because, as mentioned earlier, this type of license is counted based on the total number of people who have access to the server. Even if a multiplexing system prevents direct user connections to the server, licensing based on the number of users is still required.
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Per Core
This licensing format is much more flexible. In this case, licensing is based on the total number of cores in the Cloud Server, with no other limitations.In this licensing format, there is always a minimum of 4 cores. That is, it is not possible to license just 2 cores; you must license at least 4 cores per Cloud Server where SQL Server is installed.
Monthly cost for Microsoft SQL Web Edition (2 cores): €11 + VAT
Monthly cost for Microsoft SQL Standard Edition (2 cores): €180 + VAT
Monthly cost for Microsoft SQL Enterprise Edition (2 cores): €680 + VAT
It is important to note that ALL cores assigned to the Cloud Server—i.e., all cores contracted at Clouding—must be licensed. Licensing only the cores assigned to the SQL Server service is not sufficient.
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Other Licenses
The Microsoft SPLA catalog is very extensive and covers a large portion of Microsoft products. If you need specific software or have a special requirement, don’t hesitate to contact us; we will surely be able to offer you a solution tailored to your needs.
Canceling Licenses
Important
If you have contracted the SPLA license with us, please note that when you want to cancel it, you must contact us via email and formally request the cancellation, providing the server name or IP address, and wait for our instructions. We recommend canceling before the end of the month, as billing is done at the beginning of each month.