Re: License Costs
It becomes a pain in the ass when you have very restrictive licensing agreements with your vendors.
Like with EC2 where you pay full license per vCore (if hyperthreading is not enabled, and 0.5 license if it is) which is really just a Xeon thread. While running on your own hardware you need 0.5 licenses per Xeon core (the two threads counts as "1 core") according to Oracle's Core Factor Table
So effectively you pay double the licensing on EC2 compared to running on your own hardware.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
