As a follow up to the May 2014 article SQL Server 2014 Licensing Fine Print Shockers (here), Microsoft have indicated that MSDN subscriptions licensing would be allowed on “Dedicated” AWS EC2 instances, so in this case you don’t have to use production licensing for a dev/test SQL Server on a EC2 instance. Note when you
The fine print related to SQL Server 2014 in the April 2014 edition of the Microsoft’s Volume Licensing Product User Rights (Doc link) has some significant ramifications for punters who want to deploy their dev/test SQL Server environments to the cloud or want to have a passive SQL Server running in the Cloud.
A Microsoft representative mentioned in conversation that the Azure IaaS cloud VM provides better bang for buck than Amazon Web Services (AWS) when using your own SQL Server licenses.