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Jeremy_MS
May 08, 2025Copper Contributor
AVD on Azure Local Cost Help
We're beginning to run some of our environment on AVD hosted on Azure Local on prem. The solution is working very well for our needs. However, we're finding the costs to be prohibitively high for s...
Chris_toffer0707
May 10, 2025Iron Contributor
You could look into the license model of buying Windows Server Datacenter licenses with active Software Assurance for your physical nodes. Just remember to license all physical cores on each node. That way you become eligible to enable Hybrid Benefit and can run virtual machines on Azure Local, including using Azure Arc features like Defender for Server and Update Management.
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