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Licensing your software to run on virtual machines or in a cloud environment carries special considerations, as described below.
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Licensing for cloud applications
When using Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute Engine (GCE), you can use the Instance ID for the HostID (see HostID values). However, for other cloud service providers, such as Microsoft Azure, virtual machines do not have HostIDs. To solve this problem:
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