I have ONE VM instance (16 simulated cores) in a cloud provider with Windows Server 2019 Standard on it.
I do NOT want to install VMs inside it. I only want to use OS itself.
Cloud provider is charging me ~3,300 EUR/year for this license (only OS, no remote access CAL's).
This seems like really really expensive just for one OS license. They say I can not buy and use my own license (~1000EUR one time cost) because it is virtual machine and I will need Datacenter edition. Are they giving me correct info? At the same time other clouds offer Standard edition for ~550EUR/year on dedicated servers.
