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Amazon EVS now offers Microsoft Windows Server Licensing

Published
April 20, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-evs-windows-server-licensing/

Amazon EVS Now Offers Microsoft Windows Server Licensing Entitlements

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now offers Microsoft Windows Server licensing entitlements, allowing you to migrate or create new virtual machines (VMs) running Windows Server OS in EVS and obtain Windows Server licensing entitlements for those VMs from AWS.

Key Highlights

  • Run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances.
  • Set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours using the step-by-step configuration workflow or the AWS CLI.
  • Entitle your Windows Server VMs on Amazon EVS with Microsoft Windows Server.
  • Configure an EVS connector to your VMware vCenter Server and provide the VM IDs for those Windows Server VMs you want to entitle.
  • Pay for only what your VMs use, on a per vCPU-hour basis.
  • Add or remove entitlement for your VMs at any time, giving you flexibility to manage costs as your environment evolves.

What to do

  • Configure an EVS connector to your VMware vCenter Server.
  • Provide the VM IDs for those Windows Server VMs you want to entitle.
  • Monitor and manage your VMs through the Amazon EVS console or AWS CLI.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EVS is available.

Source: AWS release notes




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