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Hi raghuramdas,<br />
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Which version of Visual Studio you are using?<br />
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Regards,<br />
Chinmay.
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Hi raghuramdas,

Which version of Visual Studio you are using?

Regards,
Chinmay.

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Hi Chinmay,<br />
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It is Visual Studio 2017
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raghuramdas

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Awesome, that works for me Chinmay. Thank you for the link and advise.
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Awesome, that works for me Chinmay. Thank you for the link and advise.

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Hey All, Need some advise:<br />
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What’s the correct way of licensing Visual Studio and other licensed development tools when running on an EC2 instance and cloning them for any new instances? Right now, there are 5 developers with a Visual Studio 2017 licence and they login to their respective Ec2 instance where each developer has a Visual studio license. Now the scenario is:<br />
<br />
If new VM’s need to be created, current process is basically creating an Instance from a Base AMI which has got all of these development tools installed with a generic license and then manually entering new license info.<br />
<br />
Is there a way that any new VM created can de-associate previous license and enter new license or does it have to be done manually. terraform is being used to spin up these instances.
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Hey All, Need some advise:

What’s the correct way of licensing Visual Studio and other licensed development tools when running on an EC2 instance and cloning them for any new instances? Right now, there are 5 developers with a Visual Studio 2017 licence and they login to their respective Ec2 instance where each developer has a Visual studio license. Now the scenario is:

If new VM’s need to be created, current process is basically creating an Instance from a Base AMI which has got all of these development tools installed with a generic license and then manually entering new license info.

Is there a way that any new VM created can de-associate previous license and enter new license or does it have to be done manually. terraform is being used to spin up these instances.

Visual Studio Licensing for Developer machines on EC2

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