Is there a way to reduce the Windows Licensing cost on GCP?
I’m not a Licensing expert, but it appears that licensing itself costs more than the actual compute. I can’t imagine this is what Microsoft intends, so asking here.
We’re currently using the on-demand licensing where it’s charged per core, and as we are running e2-standard-16 with 16 cpu core, it’s super expensive…
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows/ms-licensing-faq
