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Re:Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available by rtempaccount1 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:14PM (#21206802)
AFAIK there's a significant caveat to that, which is that you only get unlimited windows containers, if you're using process isolation.

If you're using VM isolation, you need licenses for the containerized applications.

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Re:Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available by Spivak on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:39PM (#21207092)
I wouldn't call that a caveat so much as SOP for Microsoft licensing. A Windows license does not entitle you to run unlimited Windows VMs on top unless you pay for the more expensive edition.

The "hack" of buying a small number of super beefy servers to save on licensing costs was plugged looooong ago.

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