If the audit reveals unlicensed usage of 5% or more than they have licensed, the customer will be required to pay the retail price for all unlicensed products plus the cost of the audit. This may take the form of a self-assessment or an onsite audit. MS has implemented a policy whereby Select, Open, and EA customers should expect an audit at least once every three years. You have a variety of options for using new and existing Microsoft software licenses on the AWS Cloud.By purchasing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) license-included instances, you get new, fully compliant Windows Server and SQL Server licenses from AWS. The terms of the VL Agreements grant MS the right to perform an audit once each year with thirty days’ notice. "For Microsoft® VL customers, it’s not a question of if they’ll be audited, but rather, when it will occur.
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Microsoft 365 is available in two options, E3 and E5.
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Not recent but this thread has reports from people that have been through this, I have picked out a few quotes - Microsoft 365 is a per-user licensing option that includes Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. I imagine there would be audit exercise or sort of clemency, where an organisation declared any unlicensed software and paid for all instances.